Category: Arts & Entertainment

Anarchism and Film: New Perspectives

By thecollective From Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (ADCS) Vol. 2024 No. 1 (2024): Anarchism and Film: New Perspectives This special edition of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies takes on an ambitious endeavour: to showcase new contributions to the field of Film Studies. Until recently there has been […]

Frantz Fanon, Radical Universalist

Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Susan Neiman Fanon the Universalist Adam Shatz argues in his new biography of Frantz Fanon that the supposed patron saint of political violence was instead a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism. Ruth Margalit The Best Time of […]

Let It Tumble

In our May 23 issue, Joanna Biggs reviews Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel (whose previous biography, Ninth Street Women, took as its subject five female abstract expressionist painters in the midcentury). The essay opens at a Madonna concert Biggs attended as a child, where she experienced “the bubbly joy of dancing […]

Disney removes ‘problematic’ character from meet-and-greets — and no, it’s not the park’s cross-dressing Evil Queen

PM Edition May 15, 2024 TRENDING NOW KJP accidentally says the ‘quiet part out loud’ when asked easy question about Trump’s trial: ‘At least they’re being honest’ Blaze News investigates: Adult high school senior in Ohio attended class, track events even after he was charged with raping 9-year-old […]

Bad Painting, Folk Art and localism

Localism is an antidote to internationalist avant-gardism. But what would localist art look like? Possibly strange, wonderful and awful. Alexander Adams May 14, 2024 [Edward Lafferty, Neptune and Nymphs Astride Sea Mammals (1972), acrylic on board, 27.5” x 34.5”] Say you want to counter a trend which is […]

Reading, Reading, Reading

Sponsored by Hadar Two thirds of the way into Peter C. Baker’s review of a recent translation of The Wall, a 1963 postapocalyptic novel by Marlen Haushofer, he arrives at a series of questions that underlie mysteries, science fiction, and, implicitly, literature as a whole: “Why write? Why describe your life […]

The Divine Irony of ‘NUTCRANKR’

by David Herod of Tooky’s Mag Tooky’s Mag May 10, 2024 David Herod of Tooky’s Mag provides an in-depth analysis of Dan Baltic’s bestselling dissident novel NUTCRANKR. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — […]

The Art of the Raised Eyebrow

Somewhere round about, as I write about her and you read about her, Hilary Mantel is present…. I imagine her raised eyebrow, her incredulous laugh, as she looks over my shoulder at the computer screen. For the Review’s May 23 issue, Clair Wills writes about Hilary Mantel’s life and […]

Mick Jagger and Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry trade barbs: ‘You can’t always get what you want’

AM Edition May 6, 2024 TRENDING NOW Scientists keep finding ‘heavenly pits’ in China that are teeming with life and long lost DNA ‘Psychological gentrification’ is muddling the American mind Christian gold company defies industry’s retirement fearmongering through prayer and biblical hope Sponsored MORE STORIES THAT MATTER VW […]

‘SNL’ tackles pro-Palestine campus protests: ‘I’ll tell you what ain’t free: Columbia’

Trending story May 05, 2024 ‘SNL’ tackles pro-Palestine campus protests: ‘I’ll tell you what ain’t free: Columbia’ “Saturday Night Live” addressed the pro-Palestine protests happening at college campuses across the country. The comedy skit show focused on the perspective of the parents paying exorbitant tuition for their children […]

Robert Stark is interviewed about Esotericism

Robert Stark Apr 30, 2024 Robert Stark is interviewed by Matt Pegas and his co-host Evan, as a simulcast for their Strange Flows podcast. Topics: –Colin Wilson’s study of consciousness -Robert’s art, Substack writings, and novels -Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism –Robert’s case for Theosophy -Robert’s mystical experience at […]

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts movie will feature a January 6 parody, but he’s convinced the movie industry is dead anyway

Trending story April 25, 2024 Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts movie will feature a January 6 parody, but he’s convinced the movie industry is dead anyway Jerry Seinfeld’s movie about breakfast treat Pop-Tarts was revealed to feature a scene reminiscent of January 6, 2021.The scene in the breakfast-food-centric movie “Unfrosted” […]

A Curious Temperament

Sponsored by Georgetown University Global Dialogues The British painter and art historian Julian Bell is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. In our May 9, 2024, issue—the Art Issue—he writes about the American painter Nicole Eisenman’s first major museum exhibition, which surveys nearly four decades of […]

A Harlem Renaissance Cornucopia

Sponsored by University of California Press Our May 9 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Julian Bell on Nicole Eisenman’s extravaganzas, David Shulman on Israel’s break with reality, Ingrid D. Rowland on Canova’s magnificent marbles, Darryl Pinckney on the abundance and eclecticism of the Harlem Renaissance, Marina Harss on […]

Eurovision Hell

by Sietze Bosman Sietze Bosman Apr 17, 2024 Sietze Bosman delves into the underbelly of the Eurovision contest, where sinister forces in entertainment conspire to mold Europe’s cultural landscape with their grotesque visions of art and identity. Deep within the bowels of the modern machine of entertainment, the […]

Tulips!

Sponsored by Hauser & Wirth A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s April 18 issue. This art newsletter comes from my kitchen island, where I paused to paint some tulip studies before picking my daughter up from the bus […]

The “Humane” in Art

by Chōkōdō Shujin Chōkōdō Shujin Apr 09, 2024 Chōkōdō Shujin challenges the prevailing norms of mediocrity in art and literature, advocating transcendence beyond the “humane” to reclaim the soul of artistic ambition and creativity. The artist is sovereign. However, a work of art is, on the one hand, […]

The Forms of the Tools

Sponsored by MUBI I’ve had the pleasure of working with the artist Henning Wagenbreth for a few decades now, having been introduced to his work through a group of German illustrators and designers who had moved to New York in the 1990s. There was a small apartment in […]

Louisa May Alcott, Feminist?

Brenda Wineapple Stifled Rage Louisa May Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer, which meant that despite her gift for tart observation she often retreated into homilies and platitudes. Colin Grant The Jeopardy Is the Juice Colson Whitehead’s latest novel, Crook Manifesto, depicts its characters’ perilous navigation of […]