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The Cybernetic Humanities
Leif Weatherby reviews three recent books on the history of cybernetics.
Leif WeatherbyJan 2, 2017
- History
- Science & Technology
A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art
Robert Minto examines John Berger's theory of art expounded in “Landscapes: John Berger on Art," which is characterized by a committed but elastic Marxism.
Robert MintoJan 2, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
Strange Weather: Fiction and Climate Change
Min Hyoung Song reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.”
Min Hyoung SongJan 1, 2017
Unpredictable
Andrew Bast on two new books that measure the political impact of nuclear weapons.
Andrew BastJan 1, 2017
- Politics
Reading Burma
Sebastian Strangio explores books that complicate the international image of Burma.
Sebastian StrangioJan 1, 2017
- Around the World
- Politics
“I Haven’t Talked Much About Her Films”: Edward Sorel’s Mary Astor
Christina Newland on Edward Sorel's new biography of Mary Astor.
Christina NewlandDec 31, 2016
How to Get Away with Measure: Balance in Letter and Spirit in Wesley Lowery’s “They Can’t Kill Us All”
Darryl A. Smith on Wesley Lowery's "They Can't Kill Us All."
Darryl A. SmithDec 30, 2016
- Politics
Château Neuro
Neuroenology is the new science of wine.
Steven ShapinDec 30, 2016
- Food & Drink
- Science & Technology
Across the Irish Pond
“Pond” is a collection of stories for wiseasses and weirdos, a cathedral of strange sentences built upon the singular experience of being human.
Linnie GreeneDec 29, 2016
- Fiction
Yosemite: A Paradise Imperiled
Scott Lankford reviews “A Sense of Yosemite.”
Scott LankfordDec 29, 2016
- Art & Architecture
- History
Between the World and Wakanda: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze’s “Black Panther”
Ta-Nehisi Coates sacrifices the imaginative joys of the genre in order to avoid erasure of historical and political reality.
Osvaldo OyolaDec 27, 2016
- Comics
Metafictional Machinations: On William Luvaas’s “Beneath the Coyote Hills”
Daniel Green reviews William Luvaas’s new novel, “Beneath the Coyote Hills.”
Daniel K. GreenDec 27, 2016
- Fiction
Political Surrealism, Surreal Politics
China Miéville takes on Surrealism, exploring how to be as radical as reality in art and in politics.
Carl FreedmanDec 26, 2016
- Philosophy & Religion
- SF
Monsters of Translation: On Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov
Josh Billings wrestles with translations of the “untranslatable” novels of Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov.
Josh BillingsDec 26, 2016
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Measure of Anger: On Alice Notley’s “Benediction”
Steven Zultanski appreciates “Benediction” by Alice Notley.
Steven ZultanskiDec 25, 2016
- Poetry
Monsters Come Home: On Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s “Monstress”
Min Hyoung Song on what Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's "Monstress" can teach us now.
Min Hyoung SongDec 24, 2016
- Comics