Books
Ocean Vuong’s new collection of poetry is a dazzling investigation of love and loss, inspiring both nostalgia and release.
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The world of Harrow is a Mad Max dystopia for intellectuals. It’s Bladerunner without the tech.
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It’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.
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A thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.
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Corporate anti-racism – Bank of America is a major sponsor for the documentary – causes Ken Burns to pull his punches.
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David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
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If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.
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To always be listening more and to therefore always be listening differently is of course the very nature of fandom, and to call What’s Good the work of a fan is not a putdown.
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This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.
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Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy
Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.
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