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Art Inside: Holiday Spirit
Annie Buckley visits a prison three days before Christmas, for her series "Art Inside."
Annie BuckleyDec 28, 2017
Something Like Love but (K)not: Gunnhild Øyehaug’s Radical Fictions
Kasia van Schaik reviews Gunnhild Øyehaug's erotic, mysterious, awkward, precise collection "Knots."
Kasia van SchaikDec 28, 2017
From Conflict to Dialogue and All the Way Back
Peter Harrison considers Yves Gingras's "Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue."
Peter HarrisonDec 27, 2017
Occasional Corgis: The Crown's Canine Politics
Jane Hu, for Dear Television, has one question: WHERE. ARE. ALL. THE. CORGIS?
Jane HuDec 27, 2017
- Dear Television
Louisiana in Los Angeles: How New Orleans Jazz Traveled to California
Lynell GeorgeDec 27, 2017
- Music
“You Can’t Have Flabby Curiosity”: Three Questions for Kim Adrian
Sariah Dorbin asks Kim Adrian a few questions about her new book in the "Object Lesson" series, "Sock."
Sariah DorbinDec 27, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
Trickle-Down Loneliness: A Natural by Ross Raisin
Dan Friedman reviews "A Natural," the latest novel from from Ross Raisin.
Dan FriedmanDec 27, 2017
The Oak, the Oakling, and the Cellar Book: A Fête of Fadimans
Heather Altfeld savors Anne Fadiman's "The Wine Lover’s Daughter."
Heather AltfeldDec 26, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
Stealing Memories: On Anders Rydell’s “The Book Thieves”
Ashley Valanzola is captivated by “The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance” by Anders Rydell.
Ashley ValanzolaDec 26, 2017
- Around the World
- History
Et in Arcadia Ego
How did René Descartes produce "cheap lives"? John W. W. Zeiser on "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things."
John W. W. ZeiserDec 26, 2017
- Economics and Finance
- History
Look Homeward, America
America is a land divided, but there is a perceptual economic thread still holding us together.
Jim KozubekDec 26, 2017
“Où sont les neiges d’antan?”: On “Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky”
Alexis Levitin contemplates “Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky,” edited by Bryan Karetnyk.
Alexis LevitinDec 25, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
Hidden Mysteries and Closed Societies
Nina Revoyr interviews Nelson George, author of “To Funk and Die in LA.”
Nina RevoyrDec 25, 2017
- Noir
Collaboration in the Dark
Karl WhittingtonDec 25, 2017
- Art & Architecture
Get Real: Holiday Snapshots of Motherhood Not All They Seem
Michele Weldon reflects on the glossy portrayals of motherhood during the holiday season.
Michele WeldonDec 25, 2017
A Carnal Contact with Reality: On Pasolini’s Novels
On a great director’s neglected novels.
Daniel FelsenthalDec 24, 2017