David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?...
Liking Andy Warhol: An Interview with Jonathan Flatley
Felix Bernstein interviews Jonathan Flatley about his new book, “Like Andy Warhol,” a study that reframes how we think about Warhol’s affect and queerness....
Still Happening: A Conversation with Ed Sanders
Jennifer Seaman Cook interviews Ed Sanders, a major figure in the Beat and counterculture movements....
Archiving Revolution on 858.ma
Perwana Nazif discusses 858.ma, the Egyptian Revolution, and the radical potential in poor sound....
The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene, Part III: A Conversation with Helen Phillips, Amitav Ghosh, and Nathan Kensinger
Amy Brady of “Guernica” magazine presents the third conversation in the series “The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene.”...
Photo Synthesis: Authoring Our Lives in the Age of Instagram
The psychology that pushes us to make pictures, a psychology that Susan Sontag laid bare in 1977, seems to have reached new levels of pathology in 2018....
Unpacking Murad Osmann’s #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series
As Instagram becomes more and more prominent as a form of aspirational self-advertising, we must take seriously its images as cultural objects....
“Color of Reality”: Jon Boogz, Lil Buck, and Black Lives in Livid Color
"Color of Reality" is a eulogy for all black men who dare step into three-dimensionality....
Tools for Tots: On Alexandra Lange’s “The Design of Childhood”
Allyn West reviews “The Design of Childhood,” an exploration of the material conditions of childhood by architectural critic Alexandra Lange....
Left Mountebanks: On Agnès Poirier’s “Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–1950”
Robert Zaretsky finds fault with “Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–1950” by Agnès Poirier....
Balancing Act: Richard Sennett’s “Building and Dwelling”
Richard Sennett’s notion of an “open city” articulates how to achieve, or at least think about, the ethical city in the 21st century....
A Ramble About Books About Walking
Geoff Nicholson strolls through several books on walking....
