Books
“Recomposed” finds music poised between imaginative possibility and the entrenched economics driving environmental harm.
Michael Klein’s new collection weaves brushes with artistic giants into candid meditations on addiction, desire, and survival.
Novelist Milo Todd discusses his novel “The Lilac People” and the challenge of reconstructing queer and trans lives under—and after—Nazism.
Big questions, wild beasts, and one very independent pet
Walter Lippmann defined objectivity as the fair-minded pursuit of the truth, but all too often it has degenerated into false equivalence. Tara Henley tries to have it both ways.
These letters between Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison offer a moving portrait of literary life, daily labor, and mutual devotion
Jeff Beck is a bigger guitar hero than you realized.
A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.
“Move Over, Mona Lisa” maps the “inequality pipeline” linking museums, publishing, and academia—and challenges the systems that shape what the world sees and reads.
Arts Commentary: When Books Become Evidence — Hong Kong’s Raids and the New Global War on Dissent
Every bookshelf becomes a latent crime scene: China’s all-too-familiar totalitarian playbook to encourage self-censorship.
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