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Images of the Life That Exists Beyond Everything
Priya Gandhi explores Hilma af Klint’s studies of nature.
Archive
Onto the Grayness
Dashiel Carrera speaks with Christian Bök about his ongoing poetry project, “The Xenotext.”
In the Shadow of Stalin
Ed Pulford reviews Ben Nathans’s “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” and Perry Link and Wu Dazhi’s “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo.”
Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths
Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress.
Bringing Back New Concepts to This Mad City
Caroline Hagood explores Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own,” a collection she hears in spectral conversation with the work of Kendrick Lamar and Agnès Varda.
Michael Clune’s “Pan”
Writer and scholar Michael Clune joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his debut novel, “Pan.”
As Long as You Love Him
Hattie Lindert listens to Justin Bieber’s “SWAG.”
Everything Old Is New Again
A very old Balanchine feels fresh and a new ballet feels timeless in American Contemporary Ballet’s double bill, as reviewed by Dorie Chevlen.
In a Language Beyond What Is Given
Tia Glista watches Eva Victor’s directorial debut, “Sorry, Baby.”
Dress It Up with Reality
Amelia Anthony aims to separate the art from the artist while reading James Miller’s “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films.”
I Will Not Waste Chalk
Tim Riley reviews Alan Siegel’s “Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of ‘The Simpsons’ Changed Television—and America—Forever.”
No Love Lost for Heretics
Brad East reviews Jerome E. Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order.”
Come Back Later When Your Work Isn’t So Human
Yael Friedman looks at a recent book, exhibition, and film on photographer Larry Fink.
Cruel Indifference
Tess Pollok interviews Stephanie Wambugu about her debut novel “Lonely Crowds.”
Some Women Want to Wear It
Soraya Sebghati outlines a canon of 21st-century Iranian film.
What Do They Want, What Do They Want, What Do They Want?
Kevin Koczwara reminisces on Jim Carrey’s film oeuvre, from “Ace Ventura” and “Man on the Moon” to “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.”
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