Sweet Emptiness: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Office-core hyperobjects give Chase Bucklew the technocreeps at Katherine Behar’s UC Irvine solo exhibition.
Manan Kapoor reviews “Songs of an Eastern Humanist” by Edward Said.
Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman.
Jazz group Outside World leads Tosten Burks to self-reflection at their Hollywood release show.
In the first of a series, Osagie K. Obasogie explores the history and persistence of eugenics in science, medicine, and elsewhere.
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Woo-hoo! Brittany Menjivar gets her head checked by a jumbo jet at Blur’s pre-Coachella warm-up show in Pomona.
Edward Carver reviews Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”
Naa Oyo A. Kwate lauds Uché Blackstock’s grounded memoir about racism in medicine and denounces Constance Hilliard’s genetic explanation for Black...
Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.”
Jayson Buford revisits Curtis Hanson and Eminem’s “8 Mile.”
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
Zachary Gillan reviews Marina Yuszczuk’s “Thirst.”
Francesca Peacock reviews Lucas Rijneveld’s “My Heavenly Favorite.”