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A collage of images of Susan Sontag
Posted inArts & Culture

Reading List: Who’s Your Susan Sontag?

by Brooke Nagler April 7, 2022October 19, 2022

Five longreads about the iconoclastic American writer, director, and activist.

Posted inNonfiction

When the Dishes Are Done, I Wonder About Progress

by Sarah Rose Haas October 8, 2019January 20, 2023

In “Coventry,” Rachel Cusk draws a connection between politeness and narrative death, rudeness and tragedy, storytelling and war.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Surprise Myself With This Refusal To Let Go’: Kate Zambreno on the ‘Ghostly Correspondence’

by Tobias Carroll July 24, 2019October 19, 2022

“I thought for sure, I’ll never write about Rilke again. I’m done with Rilke! I’m sick of Rilke! Rilke — no more. But then the other day … I just started researching something about Rilke.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Science & Nature, Story

Critics: Endgame

by Soraya Roberts May 3, 2019October 19, 2022

If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Blaming of the Shrew

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Sara Fredman explore antiheroes of Golden Age television shows — and the nasty women who humanized them.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story

The Last of the Live Reviewers: An Interview with Nate Chinen

by Matthew Kassel August 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Nate Chinen may have been the last full-time jazz reviewer at any American newspaper. He says jazz hasn’t been in a better place since the ’60s — but the commercial infrastructure is broken.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Dead Girls: An Interview with Alice Bolin

by Hope Reese July 19, 2018October 19, 2022

It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, enough to rehash and reproduce her story, to kill her again and again. But not enough to see a pattern.

Posted inBlog Post, Uncategorized

It’s Never Too Late to Apologize

by Danielle Tcholakian February 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens, and Katie Roiphe have to try to be better, right along with the rest of us.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Ethical Enjoyment of Museums

by mlegro December 4, 2017October 19, 2022

In his review for the New York Times, Holland Cotter writes that the museum fails in “truth-telling.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

by michelleweber November 21, 2017October 19, 2022

“We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority.”

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