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“Struggling to find the right people to cling to”: Brandy Colbert Talks with Christina Hammonds Reed about The Black Kids
Brandy Colbert Talks with Christina Hammonds Reed about her debut YA novel "The Black Kids," about growing up Black in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Brandy ColbertAug 9, 2020
The World as a Problem Never Fully Solved
The improvised life (and afterlife) of the British art rock group Henry Cow.
Stathis GourgourisAug 9, 2020
Robert Harrison on Summer, the Hum of Poetry, and the Wild Accidents That Gave Us Life
Entitled Opinions host, Robert Harrison, on the summer solstice and summer literature
Aug 9, 2020
The Decline and Fall of the Trump Presidency, Measured in Adjectives
Joseph GiovanniniAug 9, 2020
New York City and the Staging of Disaster
From the Dreamland amusement park to the modern disaster movie, New York has always thrived at the edge of catastrophe.
Andy ReischlingAug 9, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- History
America’s “Mein Kampf”: Francis Parker Yockey and “Imperium”
A shadowy fascist, the late Francis P. Yockey (1917–1960) has followers today.
Anthony MostromAug 8, 2020
- History
- Politics
The Superlative of All Alone Is All
Jennifer Michael Hecht relates Georgie Wileman’s new photo series to thoughts to pandemic isolation and the specter of self-harm.
Jennifer Michael HechtAug 8, 2020
Each Moment Bleeding into the Next: On Yoshiharu Tsuge’s “The Swamp”
Nathan Scott McNamara gets bogged down in “The Swamp,” a collection of manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge.
Nathan Scott McNamaraAug 8, 2020
- Around the World
- Comics
Racism and Capitalism in St. Louis
A new history of St. Louis shows it again as a national microcosm, though not in flattering ways.
David RoedigerAug 8, 2020
- History
- Politics
A Better World Is Not a Place, but a Practice: A Conversation with Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners
Rethinking the legal regime of sex offenses.
M. BunaAug 7, 2020
- Law
- Politics
Like Proper Sexual: On Too Hot to Handle
Philippa Snow binges the reckless hearts and alarmist boomerisms of Netflix's reality dating sensation Too Hot To Handle.
Philippa SnowAug 7, 2020
- Television
The Deafening Choir of Oncoming Fate: On Jan Eliasberg’s “Hannah’s War”
M. G. Lord reviews "Hannah's War," the debut novel from Jan Eliasberg.
M. G. LordAug 7, 2020
- Fiction
Maximum Profits and Maximum Power: Talking to Zephyr Teachout
Andy Fitch talks with Zephyr Teachout about antitrust, vertical integration, and a return to feudalism — all topics in her book "Break 'Em Up."
Andy FitchAug 7, 2020
Fifteenth-Century Cher: A Conversation with Robert Glück on “Margery Kempe”
Mairead Case talks to Robert Glück about his book "Margery Kempe," recently republished by NYRB Classics with an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Mairead CaseAug 6, 2020
- Fiction
Singing Out of Time: On Robert Selby’s “The Coming-Down Time” and Will Burns’s “Country Music”
Tarn Macarthur appreciates “The Coming-Down Time” by Robert Selby and “Country Music” by Will Burns.
Tarn MacarthurAug 6, 2020
- Poetry
A Darker View of the Renaissance
A new book explores the ugly underside of the Italian Renaissance.
John T. ScottAug 6, 2020