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The New Primitives
Primitivism is back, not that it ever left. Ben Etherington on the historical and contemporary notions of primitivism.
All Essays
Hong Sang-soo’s Dream Time
On Hong Sang-soo's "The Day After" and the filmmaker's place in slow cinema.
Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics
How the humanities can save us.
William S. Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974–1997
Kathelin Gray tells the strange tale of William S. Burroughs and the Biosphere.
A Queer Pilgrimage to Crema
Mikaella Clements goes to Crema, Italy, the setting of Luca Guadagnino’s lush film adaptation of André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name.”
Bach at the Burger King
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?
The Hellish Comedy of Now: Silicon Valley, Season Five
For DearTV, Jane Hu and Aaron Bady talk joke-butts, Orientalism, cryptocurrency, and the season finale of Silicon Valley.
The Insistence of Memory
Dispatches from the unquiet massacre zones of Sri Lanka and Rwanda.
The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene, Part I: A Conversation with William T. Vollmann, Chantal Bilodeau, and David Wallace-Wells
Amy Brady of "Guernica" magazine presents the first conversation in the series “The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene.”
A Silver Thread: Islam in Eastern Europe
Jacob Mikanowski traces the silver thread of Islam in the tapestry of Eastern European culture.
A Necessary Fiction: Photography and Self-Image in Lynne Tillman’s “Men and Apparitions”
In “Men and Apparitions,” she seesaws between an analysis of physical pictures and an examination of the ways we picture ourselves and others.
Genius as Circumstance
Yuval Sharon on the idea of genius.
Andouni: The Shared and Unshared Songs of Armenian Exile
"My great-grandfather often was quiet and rarely spoke, if at all, about what he endured. My knowledge of what happened is limited — impossible to verify."
Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story
Toby Miller reflects on his unfortunate experiences in British academia.
The Madness to Wes Anderson’s Method
In “Isle of Dogs,” Anderson seems to ask what forms, what styles, are commensurate to rage.
What History Cannot Teach Us: A Conversation with Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden
Maya Vinokour speaks to Eugene Vodolozakin about his latest novel, “The Aviator,” and to his longtime translator, Lisa Hayden.
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