Writers or Missionaries? Writers or Missionaries?
A reporter’s journey involves writing with a sense of history and without false consolation.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is as modest and patient an act of daredevilry as has ever been achieved on film.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Endgame? Endgame?
How the rhetoric of ecoetiquette muddies writing about global warming.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls is a haunting and powerful novel.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
The Birth of Bad Taste The Birth of Bad Taste
Why Italian Mannerists like Rosso Fiorentino were painting’s first avant-garde.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Walking Stick Walking Stick
We didn’t protest. It’s not like you’re going to get anything from anybody. They don’t have it either. And the new system moved pretty quick— I had found a feral walking stick stripped from a tree by a new June shower nursing trumpets of crumbled lilac & held her scarlet eye on the outpatient pharmacy line— If the breadth of the difficulty rejects one ardent name I may still call the hour a phasmid or phantom freely stealing my heart from the other needs that burn it.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joel Felix
Sweeter Than the Sweet Sweeter Than the Sweet
For the Staple Singers and Stax Records, political engagement flowed from an artistic renaissance.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Cohen
India’s Missing Women India’s Missing Women
Why does the belief that women are safest when secluded still hold sway in India?
Jun 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Gaiutra Bahadur
Chelsea Dreams Chelsea Dreams
Artists have become the shock troops of gentrification, even at the Chelsea Hotel.
Jun 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Generations and Repetitions Generations and Repetitions
The story of country music is not love and happiness but love and work.
Jun 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover