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The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

May 03, 2021

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

The Museum Shoots Twice

Travis Diehl

April 22, 2021

The museum is a failed technology.

In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing

A. S. Hamrah

April 22, 2021

ANOTHER ROUND If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...

The Fruit of Power

James Wham

April 21, 2021

Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide

Must Love Bogs

Sami Emory

April 20, 2021

Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen

Bruce Robbins

April 12, 2021

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.

You Are Not Familiar with My Voice

A. S. Hamrah

April 07, 2021

John Gianvito on Helen Keller and his new film, Her Socialist Smile.

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito

April 05, 2021

A Moroccan Master reflects on the Arabic tradition.

Runaway American Dreams

Dennis M. Hogan

April 01, 2021

On the Boss’s long political trajectory.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.