Negar Azimi

Urban Picaresque

“For many younger writers, and maybe especially women, Cookie Mueller is the ancestor we’ve been waiting for.”

Wilder, Riskier, More Generous

A new collection demonstrates that Cookie Mueller was not just another avant-garde It Girl of the downtown scene, but a writer of rare voice and imagination.

Midnight’s Child

A Pilot’s Refusal, Reimagined

At the Venice Biennale, Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari explores the life of a memory, through a legendary story about an Israeli air force pilot who in 1982 refused to strike his assigned target.