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Breaking the Waves: Britney Spears and Lars von Trier in Lockdown
Philippa Snow watches Hulu's Framing Britney Spears and a few other films about the destruction of women at the hands of hateful men.
Archive
Diversity in Chinese Society: Talking to Cheng Li
Andy Fitch talks with Cheng Li about shifts in the Chinese middle class and what they mean for Sino-American relations.
Crystallized Desire: On Stendhalian Love
Robert Zaretsky explores love in the time of the pandemic through the life and ideas of Stendhal.
An American Killing
The true cost of radical Second Amendment interpretation will never be known.
The Disease Poetics of Empire: A Conversation with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Charles Shafaieh interviews Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb about her debut book, “Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020.”
The Malleability of “Mulholland Drive” at 20
Suzanne Enzerink explores her own personal revisiting(s) of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” through the lens of white supremacy and misogyny.
On Packing Up My Library
How a scholar built a world-class Latin American Judaica collection, and then shipped it away.
The Bathos of Impact: Ed Smith’s Notebooks and Journals
Sabrina Tarasoff revisits the poetry of Ed Smith.
Expert Isolation: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts
Helena Roy reviews Jhumpa Lahiri's latest novel in translation, "Whereabouts (Dove mi trovo)."
The Death Penalty — Dying a Slow Death?
Martha Anne Toll talks with Marc Bookman about his new book, “A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays.”
Peripheral Visionaries: On C. P. Rosenthal’s “The Hammer, the Sickle and the Heart: Trotsky and Kahlo in Mexico”
A new novel about revolutionary politics and the seductions of art in 1930s Mexico.
Ideal Relationships: On Women and Community in Russian Literature
Sharon Cameron on Anne Eakin Moss’s “Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940.”
Jacqueline Rose’s “On Violence and On Violence Against Women”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by feminist critic Jacqueline Rose to discuss her new book, “On Violence and On Violence Against Women.”
Dismantle All of This Stuff: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses his latest co-authored book, “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
A Boundary for the Washed Through the Held: On Alexandria Hall’s “Field Music”
Taneum Bambrick takes in “Field Music” by Alexandria Hall.
Adventures Among the Orthodox
Two new books explore the richness and strangeness of life among Orthodox Jews.
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