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What to Read When You Have Only Half an Hour

June 8, 2024

A pair of glasses with tiny books surrounding them

When the Culture Wars Came for the Theater

June 4, 2024

a poster for a play, featuring a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty

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A Throwback Show That Stays Relevant

May 26, 2024

Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte wear sunglasses and watch a baseball game

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’

May 23, 2024

The orange silhouettes of two women overlap

A Powerful Indictment of the Art World

May 21, 2024

A marbled paint stroke obscuring a barn in a green field

American Beauty

June 2024 Issue

photo of crowd of people holding up phones and tablets to take pictures of geyser spout

The Female-Midlife-Crisis Novel

June 2024 Issue

detail from illustration of desert landscape with curving road through it and motel sign

Time-Travel Thursdays

The Limits of Utopia

May 9, 2024

Six mockups of different building plans and designs

Watch Apple Trash-Compact Human Culture

Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel

May 8, 2024

A large hydraulic press in a warehouse is poised above an assortment of cultural items, including a guitar and a piano.

The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste

May 1, 2024

A book surrounded by computer cursors

Reading as a Sensory Experience

March 22, 2024

A blurred portrait in a gilded frame

Book Recommendations

Seven Great Graphic Novels That Go Beyond Words

February 21, 2024

A book with comic speech bubbles floating above it.

That’s Not Censorship

Xochitl Gonzalez

December 15, 2023

a painter's palette, gagged

Selling Art to the Rich, Famous, and Inebriated

December 6, 2023

Red dot stickers scattered across a photo-illustration of a couple looking at art on a wall

Political Art Isn’t Always Better Art

Spencer Kornhaber

September 15, 2023

A collage of various rap artists.

Opening Up the Hip-Hop Vault

August 27, 2023

Murdered by My Replica?

Margaret Atwood

August 26, 2023

A pixelated book

M.F.A. vs. GPT

Xochitl Gonzalez

August 24, 2023

robot hands breaking a pencil

Welcome to a World Without Endings

June 5, 2023

An infinite row of David statues

How Raising a Child Is Like Writing a Novel

April 10, 2023

A line drawing of a woman writing, overlaid with colorful silhouettes of a pregnant woman and a mother and child holding hands

The Wonder Reader

The Emotional Range of Tattoos

March 25, 2023

An image of tattooed legs

The Fine Art of Failure

February 21, 2023

An illustration of a typewriter, the surface of which is transforming into a crumpled piece of paper

Ben Okri on Manipulating Reality

February 15, 2023

A black-and-white image of Ben Okri set on a lavender purple background, with illustrated hot pink, dark yellow, and black squiggles surrounding his portrait.

The Third Law of Magic

March 2023 Issue

Black-and-white image of snow falling between buildings

Book Recommendations

Six Books That Will Change How You Look at Art

Farah Abdessamad

February 4, 2023

A group of bystanders look at a painting.

The Bitter Truth Behind Russia’s Looting of Ukrainian Art

January 21, 2023

A worker in Kherson at a museum that was looted by the city’s Russian occupiers

Book Recommendations

Seven Books About How Homes Shape Our Life

Yurina Yoshikawa

January 13, 2023

An illustration of a house inside a set of books

The Quiet Profundity of Everyday Awe

January 3, 2023

Picture of a flower against the sun

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The Superhero Movie That Actually Pulls Off Blockbuster Magic

Kelli María Korducki

January 1, 2023

Still from the 2018 film 'Black Panther'

Movies Don’t Need Reviews. They Need Something Else.

December 31, 2022

Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

The Best Feeling Art Can Give

December 10, 2022

Tár Has an Answer to Art’s Toughest Question

Spencer Kornhaber

November 19, 2022

Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár

Oliver Munday on Expression and Transgression

October 15, 2022

A salmon pink, stylized version of a picture of Oliver Munday and his daughter, Lilly. Lilly sits on Oliver's shoulders and looks straight at the camera. There are yellow, blue, and green squiggles around them both.

Depicting Injustice

October 12, 2022

MR WASH sits in a chair facing the camera, with a solemn expression. The room around him is covered in artwork.

The Rite of Spiritual Hygiene

October 10, 2022

The GIF Is on Its Deathbed

Kaitlyn Tiffany

October 7, 2022

An animated GIF showing the stylized words "the_end.gif" animated over a background evoking the Looney Tunes title