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Against Our Vanishing

Jackson Davidow

July 12, 2021

Before the publication of her photo book The Other Side in 1993, Nan Goldin asked her old friend Shellburne Thurber to return to the site of its namesake, the decadent drag bar in Boston that played slightly passé disco. Twenty years earlier, it had been their nightly hangout ...

Trouble Every Day

Daniel Trilling

July 09, 2021

In a “documentary fiction,” photographer Gilles revisits the Troubles.

Cruelest Summer

Andru Okun

July 06, 2021

What is the cost of comfort?

This Woman’s Work

Jessica Fletcher

June 29, 2021

Alice Neel’s portraits of feminized labor.

I Put a Spell on You

Hannah Gold

June 17, 2021

The witch trial as an act of too-close reading

Realism’s Revenge

John Merrick

June 07, 2021

Do we have more to learn from the nineteenth-century novel?

Old Master

Dustin Illingworth

June 02, 2021

On the life and afterlife of the Bernhardian monologue.

The Eye of the Beholder

Shivani Radhakrishnan

May 27, 2021

Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

May 24, 2021

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

She Stays Winning

Beatrice Loayza

May 19, 2021

A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.

Fake Realness

Adam Morris

May 12, 2021

A new book confronts the gay bar’s slow decline.

Art for Earth’s Sake

Lauren Kelly

May 11, 2021

On Joanie Lemercier’s climate-conscious art.