By: Peggy Nelson

Her work destabilizes, but the Beatles broke up on their own

By: Brian Berger

A singer of startling dramatic (sometimes melodramatic) empathy…

By: Mark Kingwell

Influences: Scottish gothic, science fiction, and radical left-wing politics.

By: Tom Nealon

His head-on col­lision with con­sumer society’s mutat­ed yearning…

By: Mimi Lipson

The foppish poses, the aspect of wounded nobility…

By: Tor Aarestad

“Watch out, you’re only this far from being screwed yourself.”

By: Lynn Peril

Find out why “the name of Marie Vassilieff will remain in the history of Montparnasse.”

By: Alexis Madrigal

The Hungarian nuclear chain reaction pioneer who took H.G. Wells very, very seriously.

By: David Smay

Brecht’s strategies vs. his oeuvre, which matters more, in the long run?

By: Sarah Weinman

Alban Berg’s “Woz­zeck” in­fused atonal music with emotion­al power.

By: Mark Kingwell

Ordi­nary objects shim­mer with trans­cend­ent energy in Bishop’s poetry.

By: Patrick Cates

Adler want­ed to turn psycho­analysis into pragma for the people.

By: Lynn Peril

Meet the woman who trans­formed paleo­anthro­po­logical field re­search.

By: Lucy Sante

You are the host of a virus; the virus is life; you are fucked.

By: Joe Alterio

GEORGE A. ROMERO’s (born 1940) movies are charming, because they aren’t ashamed to send the same counterintuitive message, again and again. Before Romero, “zombie” was strictly a voodoo term; in horror movies, zombies were slaves […]