Talking essays, Brooklyn and community with Jia Tolentino
A writer who says that she learns more about herself through every book she reads, essayist Jia Tolentino…
Brooklyn sisters open bookstore honoring Black food stories
A Bed-Stuy bookstore is turning a longtime dream into reality. After five years of carrying Black food stories…
A Black Literary Salon And Bar Is Coming To Bed-Stuy
Source: Variety / Getty A rebirth of the Renaissance is coming to Brooklyn next year, and it’s all…
Author James Patterson makes bombshell claim about Marilyn Monroe’s death
Author James Patterson believes Marilyn Monroe was murdered, and says the famous actress was “treading in very dangerous waters.” Patterson…
Ground/work 2025 – The Brooklyn Rail
Ground/work 2025Clark Art InstituteJune 28, 2025–October 12, 2026Williamstown, MA Sprawling across 140 acres, the second edition of Ground/work…
Material Resistance – The Brooklyn Rail
Material Resistance Nguyen Wahed September 12–November 28, 2025 New York The written statement for Material Resistance: Anna Barlik,…
Queen Camilla Helped Create Her Own James Bond Moment in a New Literary Thriller
For the last decade, Queen Camilla has established herself as the United Kingdom’s biggest book lover. From her…
FRIDA ESCOBEDO with Nile Greenberg
Rail: That’s architecture’s language. There’s a version of it that is literal—with blocks, modulation, a grid—that operates as…
In Practice, The Need to Be Chosen Gets Dark
Practice Nazareth HassanPlaywrights HorizonsOctober 30–December 7, 2025New York Vulnerability. Respect. Honesty. Rigor. Curiosity. These are the characters’ community…
Lafleur & Bogaert in New York
Lafleur ships his canvases from Port-au-Prince to Budapest, where Bogaert sources antique church banners and tapestries, excising the…
Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass
Most noticeable, amidst the magical realms and unexpected forms that fill the loft in Brooklyn, are Sikander’s women.…
N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’
Behind a table on the second floor of September’s New York Art Book Fair, four pink posters with…