Books
A New, Feminist Translation of Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley’s breathtakingly audacious and idiomatically rich Beowulf: A New Translation is a breath of iconoclastically fresh air blowing through the old tale’s stuffy mead-hall atmosphere.
Review
Books
History According to the Comic Book
Where indelible images restlessly bond with the ambiguity of words.
Art
What Is Bruce Nauman for?
It is neither easy nor especially relaxing to spend time with Nauman.
Art
Eric Fischl’s Privileged Bubble
Fischl finds a visual bond between the seclusion of the affluent white world and the pandemic’s enforced isolation.
Books
Posters That Changed the World, From Anti-Slavery Campaigns to Vaccination Efforts
Colin Salter surveys the “world’s most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters.”
Film
Dash Snow and the Price of Being a “Rebel” Artist
The new documentary Moments Like This Never Last explores how Snow's bad boy performance became a trap for him.
Art
Tender, Yet Monumental Figures Crafted From the Tides
In Soles of My People, Khari Turner channels elements of Midwestern waterways into figures awash with global histories of triumph and struggle.
News
Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming
In this excerpt from his new book, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture, Anaïs Duplan probes the constraints and contradictions of Black masculinity.
Film
How Artificial Intelligence Becomes Racist
The documentary Coded Bias reveals how prejudices are written into the algorithms that run our world.
Film
An Unheralded Film About Girlhood Gets a Second Chance
Smooth Talk, the 1985 Laura Dern breakout, has gotten a restoration and re-release after being ignored in its day.
Film
A Documentary Portrait of Environmentalist Greta Thunberg
I Am Greta captures some sobering truths about the nature of contemporary activism.
Books
A New Book Awash With the Glories of Watercolor
Watercolor: A History features over 300 dazzling, full-color illustrations, all specially printed on Munken paper to capture the intensity and texture of the original works.