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  Motricity and Desire

  High school sophomores or 16th-century saints? Sam Contis’s recent exhibition captures the unmediated facial expressions of runners at the finish line.

  Lindsey A. FreemanMar 30

  • Art & Architecture

  • Sports

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  Mothra Lives Again!

  A new translation revitalizes Mothra stories from the early days of Godzilla, but the writing itself struggles to emerge from its cocoon.

  Timothy S. MurphyMar 26

  • SF

  • Film

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  Cat Scratch Tarot

  My Barbarian’s tarot exhibition at Lubov evokes the domestic familiarity and ancient unknowability of our feline friends.

  Elizabeth WietMar 26

  • Art & Architecture

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  Consider the Waffle

  Are Waffle Houses or garden cities the future of food?

  Benjamin R. CohenMar 25

  • Food & Drink

  • Economics and Finance

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  I Might Just Strangle You, Baby

  Richard Edwards’s new solo album emerges from a personal hell of isolation and physical travails.

  Justin GautreauMar 23

  • Music

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  House Without Men

  In the first English translation of Fausta Cialente’s ‘A Very Cold Winter,’ institutions imposed on women by patriarchal forces ‘appear as foreign and inexplicable as language itself.’

  Francesca MancinoMar 22

  • Fiction

  • History

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  But It Feels So Real to Me

  Juan Ecchi’s novel ‘Dryback’ investigates the ways porn has eroded men’s capacity for real connection.

  Sam FranziniMar 21

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Blot Out and Remember

  Daniela Naomi Molnar’s new book confronts the source text of modern antisemitism with a project of excision, explication, and preservation.

  Jason FranciscoMar 21

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

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  They Don’t Make ’Em Like That Anymore

  G. Edward White’s new biography explores the life of Robert H. Jackson, a Supreme Court justice revered by jurists from both ends of the political spectrum.

  Rodger D. CitronMar 20

  • Law

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  Ladies Who Still Lunch

  The new posthumous gathering of Lore Segal’s final stories is a wise and funny tribute to the power of friendship.

  Na’amit Sturm NagelMar 17

  • Fiction

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  Empty Hiss

  The short story form is an uneasy vessel for Helen Garner’s particular intensity.

  Max CallimanopulosMar 16

  • Fiction

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  A Romance You Watch in Secret

  The Russian-language reception of Crave’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how tenderness, desire, and character complexity shape a phenomenon that transcends borders.

  Olga NechaevaMar 14

  • Television

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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