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A Coltrane Surprise

Taylor Ho Bynum

September 23, 2021

A live performance of “A Love Supreme” shines a new light on the classic album.

The Architect’s (Auto)biographer

Kevin Rogan

September 14, 2021

Minoru Yamasaki has never enjoyed particularly great estimation in the annals of architectural history. His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis and the ...

The Story of the Lost Novel

Madeleine Crum

September 13, 2021

Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.

Unsolved Mysteries

Sophie Atkinson

August 30, 2021

In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.

Singing in Dark Times

Declan Ryan

August 23, 2021

Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Tom Thor Buchanan

August 16, 2021

A new history of teletherapy highlights the flexibility of the therapeutic frame.

Speeding Away from Zion

Ross Barkan

August 05, 2021

What is the American Jew?

His Own Prophet

Suleiman Mourad

August 04, 2021

Adonis’s Misguided Polemic Against Islam.

Find Your Soul

Matt Hanson

August 03, 2021

The language of American cultishness.

Against the Universe

John Semley

July 16, 2021

Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.

Writer on the Storm

Andrew Schenker

July 14, 2021

George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities.

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 ...