Clamoring for Life
Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez’s work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery.
May 9, 2024 issue
How American Eyes Got Modern
The midcentury ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters. Printmakers made cutting-edge art on a homier scale—and it was affordable.
May 9, 2024 issue
Burning Up
Reading John Vaillant’s Fire Weather and Jeff Goodell’s The Heat Will Kill You First, you may wonder if civilization is getting so hot that we’re no longer thinking straight.
May 9, 2024 issue
The Must-Also-Haves
In Nicole Eisenman’s paintings and sculptures, a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish hilarity.
May 9, 2024 issue
Photographing a Lost New York
When I moved to Lower Manhattan in 1967, I decided to make a picture of every building in the neighborhood before the city knocked it down.
April 25, 2024
Free from the Archives
Diane Johnson: Home Remedies“Self-help books are nothing new, they are nearly the oldest form of literature. Cautionary tales, rules for life, admonitions from saintly models convey the reassuring impression that something can be done. Maybe it can, even. Have you hugged your kid today?”
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