Sponsored by Provocations / University of Nebraska Press In 1917, a year after moving to New York City, the poet, painter, lampshade-maker, and all-around modern artist Mina Loy spoke with a reporter from the Evening Sun. As Francesca Wade writes in “‘The Sanctuary of Pure Expression,’” from the Review’s February […]
Joel Mathis Can air travel ever be ‘green’? Theara Coleman Ruben Gallego announces run for Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate seat Rafi Schwartz Are entitlements the next front in the GOP’s civil war? Advertisement from Wisebread Best Reward Cards of 2023 Becca Stanek Is it better to buy or rent […]
By Alan Bickley Shakespeare is much overrated, and I am no fan of his plays. It goes without saying that he is inferior to the Greek dramatists. In terms of plotting, he is inferior to Marlowe. In terms of language, he is comically inferior to Cranmer and the […]
New York Review of Books Jed Perl Going to Extremes For Matisse art was a perpetual emergency, a matter of testing boundaries, breaking through. Neal Ascherson Sonnets for the State A new book recounts the history of the Circle of Writing Chekists, a group of officials in the […]
WATCH Season 3 of Love Gov: The Metaverse of Madness! Independent Institute’s award-winning web series Love Gov returns with a third season! Season 1 and Season 2 were smash hits—with over 40 million views. Now, Season 3 has already racked up over three million views since its release last fall. Each of […]
Martin McDonagh’s poignant and hilarious parable Andrew Sullivan 8 hr ago (Jonathan Hession/Searchlight Pictures) Even by the standards of Martin McDonagh’s lifetime of work, The Banshees of Inisherin is a masterpiece. Like all masterpieces, everyone will have their own interpretation, because the layers of meaning are complex, multiple […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmk0oJiUGb0&t=17s The Nation’s award-winning 30 minute documentary is an excellent teaching and discussion tool for honoring Black History Month. The Road to Justice follows two groups on The Nation’s Civil Rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the profound racial injustices of our recent past. […]
Sponsored by Liveright Our February 9 issue is online now, with Christine Smallwood on how to read, Gary Shteyngart on Soviet Jews, Jed Perl on Matisse’s extremes, Anahid Nersessian on Dionne Brand at the gates of beauty, Adam Kirsch on The Hours at the opera, Fred Kaplan on Putin’s […]
Caitlin Johnstone 11 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: I get funny reactions from people who are new to my work, often because I don’t act like the other indie media figures they follow. I’m unrefined and swear a lot. I engage on social media […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss “The Embrace,” a new monument erected in Boston in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Harvard University Press Ishmael Reed A New Flame for Black Fire What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Regina Marler Behind the Mask After rejecting the gendered fixations of the Surrealist movement, Méret Oppenheim embraced an androgynous art of […]
— Carl Swanson, editor-at-large, New York For the past 14 years, the German media executive Markus Dohle — whom most regular people have never heard of — was the king of consolidation in book publishing. Despite or maybe because of that, he was well liked, or at least […]
A documentary about confronting our painful history–and meeting unsung heroes who changed the world. The Road to Justice follows two groups on The Nation’s Civil Rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the profound racial injustices of our recent past. One group is composed predominantly […]
28 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2023 The movies are finally back. But what do we even want from a movie right now, and what defines a movie’s success? There’s much to think about as we head into a New Year of post-pandemic moviegoing, with shifting […]
New York Review of Books We were thrilled to see so many of our books land on best-of lists for 2022. We are proud of every book we published this past year and it is nice to see our authors and translators recognized for their great work. Below […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Zerogram Press Francine Prose Carlotta’s Brooklyn It’s a daring move, paraphrasing a masterpiece like Joyce’s Ulysses, but in his new novel, James Hannaham shows us why a writer might do it. Sherrilyn Ifill When Diversity Matters During October’s marathon argument in a pair of […]
By Russell A. Berman · Monday, January 9, 2023 Telos Before Timothy Leary and Baba Ram Dass, before Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and their acid test, before the Grateful Dead . . . there was Ernst Jünger, adventurer in mind expansion and psychedelic space. Jünger stands out in […]
For contest #357, we see a sliver of a famous body. Chris Bodenner Jan 6 (For the View From Your Window contest, the results below exceed the content limit for Substack’s email service, so to ensure that you see the full results, click the headline above.) Happy 2023! […]
Meanwhile, back at the Legion of Doom, they be talkin silly! What?! In this economy?! Also to billybob7712 who i met in a random tf2 game and asked to be put in the video, this is the best you’re gonna get. i hope the doctors were able to […]
Number 6 fights to retain his individuality within intense social pressure from the community to conform.
Kanye was missing as soon as Ye appeared.
By Bryan Chai, Western Journal January 3, 2023 at 7:00am “Dr. Strange” actor and veritable Hollywood star Benedict Cumberbatch may be in some hot water with the small island nation of Barbados.Cumberbatch, whose credits include the BBC’s “Sherlock” as well as the aforementioned “Dr. Strange” films, and his […]
Krystal and Saagar break down CNN’s major flop during the New Years show with Don Lemon completely missing the countdown.
December 31, 2022 Entertainment News Celebrities Who Passed Away in 2022 Share* READ MORE David & Goliath | Feature Film The incredible true story of David, a young shepherd who battles the most ferocious giant in human history. This epic and inspiring story reveals […]
New York Review of Books This year at The New York Review, we published fifty interviews as part of our “Brief Encounters” series. In these conversations with our contributors, which have covered topics are diverse as fairy tales, Michigan and Indiana, the politics of criticism, and the history of […]
Caitlin Johnstone 50 min ago Listen to a reading of “Love Crashes In”: Love crashes in from all directions, so peel me off the ground like Wile E Coyote and blow on my thumb to unflatten me. Love crashes in like an ACME anvil, like an ACME exploding […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics Our January 19 issue is online now, with Josephine Quinn on the alphabet, Zadie Smith on Tár, Fintan O’Toole on the dark lessons of January 6, Susan Tallman on trompe l’oeil à la cubisme, Tim Judah on Ukraine’s volunteer […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by MUBI Alice Driver Working in Their Sleep Meatpacking workers in Arkansas, grieving loved ones lost to Covid and struggling to pay medical bills, are organizing for justice from their employer. Michael C. Dorf and Laurence H. Tribe Court v. Chatbot In a recent […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Sean Wilentz The Emancipators’ Vision Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means? Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes On Women: An Exchange “That article of mine spoke of women in general, and said things we all know: […]
Laibach/Current members Totalitarian governments make extensive use of the appearance of power. Banners, marches, large plenary meetings of officials, and ritual parades of devastating weapons are veritable pageants of this language, scaled up from the logic of small despots to that of mass production. Often, this is a […]
Today we discuss “The Player of Games” one of the most thought provoking books in Iain Bank’s Culture series. In this book we encounter a society whose entire social order is based upon a complex game.
By Tom Woods It’s incredible how upset some people get over free speech. The latest is Elton John, who just announced he’ll be leaving Twitter: “All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being […]
I remember when I was in high school, there was this black homosexual guy. It was fairly obvious. Nobody beat him up and and he kept to himself.
Nicholas Carlson, December 9, 2022 Hello, Insiders. Well, this was a weird week! We’ve been working on an investigation into influencer Arielle Charnas’ fashion company Something Navy for a few months now. And then, all of a sudden, the popular Instagram gossip account Deuxmoi told its followers to expect […]
New from Telos Press: Approaches: Drugs and Altered States, by Ernst Jünger. Order the paperback edition today in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20. Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. Approaches: Drugs and Altered States by Ernst Jünger Translated by […]
Cowboy Bill Watts came into WCW with a lot of excitement, but when he made some big rule changes, he turned most of the wrestlers against him. By Shawn S. Lealos Cowboy Bill Watts was one of the most successful promoters in wrestling during the territory days. In […]
By Jesse Cohn Over the course of its history, the anarchist movement has produced a form of literary theory – a critical aesthetics and epistemology grounded in its emancipatory ethics. In sketching an outline of this body of thought, this essay attempts to call attention to several aspects […]
Caitlin Johnstone 1 hr ago I’ve been doing a lot of oil painting lately. Here are some of the ones I like: ❖ Julian Assange. ❖ Terence McKenna. ❖ Assange again. I enjoy painting eyes. ❖ My husband Tim. ❖ Lightbulbs. ❖ The grandfather from the documentary About […]
November 30, 2022 Companies Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘Sorry’ for Battle Against Florida, Calls on Employees to ‘Respect’ Audience Share* READ MORE The Shadow State | Documentary Big Government is powerful. So are gigantic corporations. What would happen if they formed an alliance to […]
In his new book ‘Dangerous Rhythms,’ author TJ English exposes a dark underside of the music industry, showing how mob-adjacent Jews fought segregation while exploiting the talent. By Rich Tenorio Times of Israel “Jazz Provides Background for Death,” screamed the Associated Press headline following the January 26, 1959, […]
New York Review of Books In the December 22 issue of the Review, Howard W. French confronts the “glaring, foundational flaw” in A Bend in the River, one of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul’s best-known novels: “its extreme essentialization of Africa and Africans—their reduction to pure, simple, almost iconic abstractions.” […]
By Scott MacDonald, Newsweek Actress and political activist Alyssa Milano has been slammed online after she boasted Saturday about trading in her Tesla for a Volkswagen electric vehicle. She claimed she made the switch to defy “hate and white supremacy” and businesses buying ads on Twitter. “I gave […]
Caitlin Johnstone 15 hr ago I have a new book out called Lao Sue And Other Poems, available in paperback or on PDF/ebook. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Crazy They’ll make you poor, then shame you for being poor, then push you into a job that keeps you poor […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Reaktion Books Corey Robin Empathy & the Economy The left is still preoccupied with the decades-old debate over which is more important: recognition of our identities or material redistribution. Adam Smith ended that argument before it began. Regina Marler Uncommon Women In […]
For thousands of fans, he made philosophy thrillingly relevant. Yet there is a deep unsavoury undercurrent to his worldview/ Colin Wilson on Hampstead Heath in 1956. Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Jules Evans is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the […]
New York Review of Books “It is surprising to find the bratty sneer of ‘My Generation’ (‘I hope I die before I get old’) moved to an assisted-living facility,” writes Dan Chiasson in the most recent issue of the Review. What motivates Chiasson’s surprise is The Philosophy of Modern […]
By Pinny Arnon, Times of Israel The outsized role Jews play in multiple fields can be explained, and Jews – tasked with the mission of spreading light – are not above criticism. Dave Chappelle is right. There ARE a lot of Jews in Hollywood. There are also a […]
By Gloria Oladipo in New York, The Guardian Some 130 signatories including Gloria Steinem back actor who faced harassment after losing Johnny Depp defamation suit Harassment of Amber Heard ‘was fueled by disinformation, misogyny, biphobia and a monetized social media environment’, the letter said. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/AFP/Getty Images […]
New York Review of Books Anahid Nersessian A Vivisectional Style A new biography of John Donne argues for the sensuality and strangeness of both his work and his life. Lucy Sante Models for Being A meditative essay on friendship weaves through Hua Hsu’s memoir, which is also about […]
New York Review of Books In today’s midterm elections, United States voters are selecting, in addition to thousands of state and local officials, thirty-five senators, thirty-six state governors, and all 435 congresspeople in the House of Representatives. Among these candidates is Democrat John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, who is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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