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  The Artist Is Present (Online)

  Sophie Bishop’s new book tracks the pressures artists face to conform their ‘brands’ to the demands of the algorithmic boss.

  Sarah BrouilletteFeb 20

  • Art & Architecture

  • Economics and Finance

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  You Say You Want a Revolution

  Should historians look at violent revolutions with rose-colored glasses while vindicating the terror that carried them forth?

  Jack JacobsFeb 19

  • History

  • Politics

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  A Fiction of Global Terror

  Timothy Rideout’s new book shows how precarity among the middle and working classes powers the fears at the heart of 21st-century gothic literature.

  Tracy Fernandez RysavyFeb 19

  • Literary Criticism

  • Economics and Finance

  • SF

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  God and the Unconscious

  Joan Copjec’s new book charts the conceptual affinities and historical convergences between psychoanalysis and Islamic philosophy.

  Henry ClementsFeb 17

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Film

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  Sex in the City: Istanbul 1923

  A cheerful collection of Turkish erotica, translated by Burcu Karahan, offers insights into early 20th-century sexuality in Istanbul.

  Kaya GençFeb 17

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Fiction

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  Social Mobility and Stagnation

  How the university entrance exam and residency permits structure life for in China.

  Susan Blumberg-KasonFeb 16

  • Cultural Studies

  • Education

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  The End of Cinema?

  Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.

  Georgie CarrFeb 15

  • Film

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  How to See Like a 17th-Century Friar

  A major new study puts the visual paradoxes and optical illusions of baroque art at the heart of theological debates of the Counter-Reformation.

  Emanuele LugliFeb 13

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Art & Architecture

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  Really Classical Figures

  In the wake of Bob Weir’s death, a new book emerges on the Grateful Dead’s overlooked engagement with literature.

  Christian KriticosFeb 12

  • Music

  • Literary Criticism

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  Taiwan, Hong Kong, Columbia

  Chris Horton’s ‘Ghost Nation’ and Ching Kwan Lee’s ‘Forever Hong Kong’ follow protesters and revolutionaries who, successfully or otherwise, challenged the power of the state.

  Paul KreitmanFeb 11

  • Politics

  • History

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  Until the Next Grave Is Dug

  On Urszula Honek’s bleak debut story collection, the Booker long-listed ‘White Nights,’ newly translated by Kate Webster.

  Cory OldweilerFeb 10

  • Fiction

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  Monsters of the Anthropocene

  Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ reduces Mary Shelley’s novel to a one-dimensional warning about technological hubris.

  Deborah R. CoenFeb 9

  • SF

  • Science & Technology

  • Film

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