John Berger
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.
If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.
A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.
Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.
August Short Fuses — Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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