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Global pandemic notwithstanding, the future was always bleak. But the desire for the good life, or some semblance of it, is a stubborn flame.
This month’s book, Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, is what I call a handful.
In the book, I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad, authors Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg critically examine the tales of terror and havoc wrought by the BPD in a previously unseen way.
The challenges of Blackness and queerness are central in this book, articulated together through the lens of family.
This edition of Quarantine Diaries focuses on five writers, editors, and literary advocates, and their strategies for surviving quarantine.
Two books that highlight gender inequity and identity, intersecting in imaginative and realistic and always-necessary ways.
A challenging, instructive text in this period of mass illness and isolation, when it is hard to imagine a future, though we must.
Each vignette is a high-wire act, teetering along the razor’s edge separating shame and desire, passion and violence, actualization and obliteration.
'The Obama Portraits' gives an intimate look at the process, the artists who painted the portraits, and the hope Obama’s presidency provided for Americans
FOLLOWING is a series of profiles and interviews of the art world social media accounts that make us think, laugh, cry, love, or sometimes just “like.”
Get vintage clothing and masks delivered to your porch, pick up local coffee and charcuterie, plus ideas for keeping your children and yourself entertained with remote book clubs and story hours.
In this weird and surreal time of social distancing and self-isolation, a stranger’s voice can feel like a warm invitation.
Weather takes an atmospheric view of dread, from domestic to existential, that is particular to our 21st-century life.
Author Susan Muaddi Darraj—who is Arab American and born to Palestinian parents—is forging new ground and giving visibility to young girls from this culture.
Proprietary technologies and planned obsolescence collide to make data harder to extract once a file format is no longer supported, leading to a growing concern about the impact of this current “digital dark age.”