Want To Know the Future of the Art World? This Book Has You Covered
When the pandemic hit, the author and cultural consultant András Szántó didn’t let the crisis go to waste.…
Golden Run
Journalism is an endangered profession. The signs have been evident for decades: subscriptions and advertising in decline, publications…
Katherine Dunn’s ‘Near Flesh’ is a grim and gritty display of sinewy prose and morbid humor • Oregon ArtsWatch
Katherine Dunn (1945-2016) is best known for her National Book Award-nominated novel, “Geek Love.” A collection of her…
The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K.
The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a…
The Underworld review: Sophie Laguna goes deep
In Sophie Laguna’s The Underworld, only child Martha is an introvert who is misunderstood by her family. Her…
A Whole New (Yet Familiar) World
Classic kids’ book peeks into 1950s Alameda If you find yourself at a loss for something to read,…
Mapping shifts in the geography of tech innovation: China becomes a big player in AI research
The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a “misperception”,…
‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
A gripping story of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying…
Networks of progress: On Carl Benedikt Frey’s ‘How Progress Ends’
Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that life is “lived forwards but understood backwards.” Carl Benedikt Frey, in “How Progress…
‘Painter’s Rebellion’: On Gündüz Vassaf’s call to resist silent conformity
Some books invite you into quiet contemplation and some books drag you, sometimes unwillingly, into the turbulence of…
Patricia Lockwood’s Book Is a Pleasant Fever Dream
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Riverhead Books One solution for representing the internet-augmented discontinuity of contemporary life is the fragment…
Life Writing
Jonathan Lethem is concerned with time. Time as an element of narrative, yes: His new book, A Different…