A poet's call to bravely inhabit the body.
Karthika Nair’s new book brings a new narrative to an old tale
An unplanned New York City wedding left to theatrical chance by the Dzieci Theatre Company goes off with all the hitches.
Mircea Eliade's 1924 classic is now available in English translation, offering a rare glimpse into the often unseen Romania.
Focusing on the living at the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, Poland
An exhibition in Beirut challenges conventional perspectives to tell a political history of Palestinian embroidery
The unexpected hubbub surrounding Sandro Miller's homage to classic photographs.
On Paul Thomas Anderson’s Junun, or, the Madness of Love.
A new collection of David Foster Wallace's essays considers the ties between aesthetics, sport, and capital.
A feature documentary considers the private lives of female sex workers at America's truck stops.
How photographer Rowan Renee transforms the deeply personal past.
Painter Thomas Paquette celebrates a half-century of the Wilderness Act
A production of the Ibsen play embraces an unorthodox space.
The little-known book illustrations.
In Good Time is the first mid-career survey of DuBois’ photographs on exhibit at Aperture Gallery.
A new film takes a novel approach to Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's life and legacy.
Catie Lazarus’s new talk show asks all the right “wrong” questions about work
The personal and the political converge at Laura Poitras' new exhibit.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 is essentially an unfinished metal structure.
An exhibition of the artist's Cor-ten steel sculptures offers a meditative experience.
Jim Shepard elevates the ordinary and makes a necessary addition to the literature of the Holocaust.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, a traveling exhibit on the treatment of homosexuals under Nazism sheds light on a darker period.
In The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter put her own spin on horror, the gothic, and old fairy tales, expanding the limits and possibilities of fiction.
On the sublime in Sally Mann, the painful reminders of Nan Goldin, and the impossibility of understanding the past.
Paul Beatty’s The Sellout skewers the idea of “post-racial” society.
