Books
Katy Hessel Kicks Men Out of the Western Art Canon
After reading The Story of Art Without Men, educators may aspire to redesign their art history surveys and syllabi — and trade some Picassos for Gegos.
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Books
Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling
Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.
Books
A Novelist’s Beautiful, Unusual Tribute to Her Parents, Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
Linn Ullmann shows that it is difficult but possible to carve out one’s own identity while honoring and loving one’s mother and father.
Books
Reflections of America in a British's Author's Wall
The nightmares in John Lanchester's The Wall seem like a logical endpoint of the West's recent relapse into chauvinistic nationalism.
Poetry
Marilyn Chin: Poet, Translator, Provocateur
A few weeks ago, on Centre Street–just north of Canal, the longtime boundary between Chinatown and the rest of Manhattan–I was on a panel, Re-imagining Asian American (and American) Poetry, at the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA).