Columbia University Press
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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A powerfully relevant study about an iconoclastic Black thinker and poet who was dedicated to economic reform as well as the eradication of racism.
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The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.
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One of the masterpieces of Russian drama is done justice in a English version that successfully captures much of the wit and fluency of the original.
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Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.
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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.
Read MoreThere was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.
Read MoreRapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.
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Book Review: “What’s Prison For?” — A Case for Building Trust and Mutual Respect
In this valuable and necessary book Bill Keller argues that American prisons need to accept that men and women don’t stop being human beings because they’re in the custody of the state.
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