The Wandering Souls of Caspar David Friedrich The Wandering Souls of Caspar David Friedrich
The German artist’s landscape paintings tried to capture the sublimity of a world that has vanished.
May 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Quinn Moreland
Signs of the Times Signs of the Times
In NYC and across the nation, protests erupt.
May 1, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper and Steve Brodner
Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone
In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable.
May 1, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Zoe Dubno
The Bloody Blues of “Sinners” The Bloody Blues of “Sinners”
Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster horror period piece sets out to reinvent the creature feature—for better and for worse.
Apr 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Writing on the Floor Writing on the Floor
A Visibility Brigade action, on a bridge over a highway in Paramus, New Jersey.
Apr 29, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione and Kimberly Miller
Chile in Our Hearts Chile in Our Hearts
John Dinges’s revisionist account of Missing.
Apr 29, 2025 / Steven Volk
Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics
Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class.
Apr 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Camille Bromley