The Cuttlefish’s Play
Richard Powers’s Playground does for oceans what his 2018 novel The Overstory did for trees: it implores us to open ourselves to the ingenuity of life beyond the human.
December 19, 2024 issue
You Only Live Twice
Shakespeare’s characters often navigate the dangerous possibility of a second chance.
December 19, 2024 issue
Intimate Theatricality
Meticulously installed domestic spaces set the tone for Mickalene Thomas’s current exhibition, which features the work for which she is best known: sumptuous portraits of Black women in repose—the artist’s mother, lovers, and friends.
December 19, 2024 issue
Centers on the Margins
The dark history of Buczacz, an ordinary town in western Ukraine, exemplifies the fate of Jews in the vast marginal territories of East-Central Europe.
December 19, 2024 issue
The Shoals of Prose
Recent books of prose by two of our best poets suggest the importance of criticism to the development of a poet’s work.
December 19, 2024 issue
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John Thompson: Last Testament“Berryman knew the depths and knew how it would end. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. But he rendered also as who else ever has the wrong and outrageous heights—the ‘highs’ as they say now with the proper note of cheapness—mere fun and wrong, wrong.”
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