
‘The Sanctuary of Pure Expression’
A new biography of Mina Loy shows that the roving modernist saw artistic genius as a means to self-reinvention.
February 9, 2023 issue
Risk, Originality, Commitment
For Andrea Dworkin, literature and social change were always entwined.
January 26, 2023
The Lore of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction is suffused with the pleasures of scholarship and study. Amazon’s new franchise The Rings of Power can’t sit still.
January 24, 2023
Illuminating the Brain’s ‘Utter Darkness’
A new biography considers the peculiar life of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, whose discovery that nerve cells are individual completely overthrew the existing theory of the brain.
February 9, 2023 issue
Going to Extremes
For Matisse art was a perpetual emergency, a matter of testing boundaries, breaking through.
February 9, 2023 issue
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