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Roadside Attractions: On John Keahey’s “Following Caesar”
Mike Rodelli considers John Keahey’s “Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire.”
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Ama Codjoe on Robert Pruitt
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
Inside My Dark Room
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
A Story of What-Ifs: On Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires”
Elizabeth Gonzalez James reviews Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires.”
Parents Against Books: A Conversation with Nancy Agabian
Haig Chahinian interviews Nancy Agabian about her new book “The Fear of Large and Small Nations.”
Decadent Masculinity: On Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s “The Fire Within”
Conor Truax reviews the republication of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s 1931 novel “The Fire Within.”
Screams with a Black Timbre: On Jordan Peele’s “Out There Screaming”
Jason Ray Carney reviews Jordan Peele’s “Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror.”
Artificial Intelligence: A Creative Tool Considered [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Joel Gethin Lewis, the interactive creative director of UK-based design collective Universal Everything.
Tales of Moral Seriousness: On Nora Gold’s “18”
David Wolpe reviews Nora Gold’s “18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages.”
History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory”
Craig Calhoun reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution.”
Theme Park or Museum?
Jack Skelley tours Luna Luna, an art theme park recently resurrected by Drake, containing work by Basquiat, Haring, and others.
Alicia Kennedy’s “No Meat Required”
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with writer Alicia Kennedy about “No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating.”
Our Bayard, the Celebrity: On George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin”
Marcus Lee looks at the new Netflix biopic of Bayard Rustin in the context of his reception and iconography.
The Home Depot Parking Lot at Sunset: On Ivanna Baranova’s “Continuum”
Bradley King reviews Ivanna Baranova’s “Continuum.”
Reporting Live from Hell
Madeleine Connors shells out for fascism cosplay and finds that sometimes the games are best left on screen.
Houellebecq’s Holy Folly: On Michel Houellebecq’s “Quelques mois dans ma vie”
Cory Stockwell reviews Michel Houellebecq’s “Quelques mois dans ma vie.”
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