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Cuba’s Preeminent Writer Takes Some New Chances
Leonardo Padura is inching towards joining the pantheon with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Ann Louise BardachApr 13, 2014
Midnight Reckonings
D. Foy is interested in the language and mood of nights like this — when characters attempt to peel away pretense and falsity.
David RiceApr 13, 2014
A One Woman Army
Andi Zeisler reviews "Valerie Solanos: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol).
Apr 12, 2014
- Gender & Sexuality
America’s Silver Age
For the first time, Wonder Woman’s origin story is in full color.
Tim HanleyApr 12, 2014
- Comics
- Gender & Sexuality
The Power of History
In Short Century, David Burr Gerrard takes the reader from discussions of war, journalism, and their agencies into a metaphysical, Nabokovian intrigue.
Matthew DaddonaApr 11, 2014
You Live Your Life as If It’s Real
Through Leonard Cohen, Peter Grandbois looks for answers to riddles posed by memoirist David Stuart MacLean
Peter GrandboisApr 11, 2014
The Tenderness in Looking
Two recent poetry collections employ miniatures to interrogate our perspective on crime and incarceration.
Marcela SulakApr 10, 2014
A Repository of Ideas
Robert Hooke was an integral member of England’s Royal Society — a group of dispersed natural philosophers devoted to what we might now call science.
Jessica KeatingApr 10, 2014
- Art & Architecture
It Takes an Ecovillage
Intentional communities known as ecovillages are popping up around the world — sites of big ideas and small carbon footprints.
Justin ScottApr 10, 2014
The Young Man and the Sea
The small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair.
James Bernard FrostApr 9, 2014
A Keeper of Love’s Flame: Regine Olsen and Søren Kierkegaard
After Kierkegaard cast off his fiancée Regine, her presence haunted his work throughout his career. But what was her story?
Morten Høi JensenApr 9, 2014
Looking for the Light
Alison Barker reviews Ariel Gore’s complicated memoir about her role as her mother’s caretaker.
Alison BarkerApr 8, 2014
- Travel
The Eye of the Mind
J. Mae BarizoApr 7, 2014
The Modern Arts of World-Making
Tim MoonenApr 6, 2014
Empathy, Examined
Leslie Jamison gets high marks for The Empathy Exams.
Suzanne KovenApr 6, 2014
Reconsidering the "Good War"
Mary Louise Roberts on sex, violence, culture clash, and American soldiers in France during WWII.
Robert ZaretskyApr 6, 2014