Hari Kunzru On a Quest to Know Everything “We’re living through a moment when the inhuman scale and complexity of the world has been made visible to us, and we are reacting in human ways. Paranoia is understandable, even logical.” June 12, 2021
Ela Bittencourt Brazil’s Fotoclubistas in Focus A show at MoMA showcases the Modernist heyday of a vibrant, largely amateur avant-garde photography movement. June 11, 2021
Delphine Schrank Myanmar’s Other Government Popular resistance to the military junta that seized control in February’s coup has gone far beyond protest and strikes. A remarkable democratic endeavor in dual power is afoot. June 7, 2021
Priyamvada Natarajan A Proclivity for the Unknown “I was always attracted by the cosmos—the night sky and the deep, dark mysteries it held have always seduced me.” June 5, 2021
Claudia Dreifus interviews Marc Elias ‘Democracy Is at Stake’ The expert elections lawyer knocked down scores of pro-Trump lawsuits challenging the 2020 results. Now, he says, we’re in a struggle to save the republic. June 1, 2021
J. Hoberman ‘Undine’ Retold With its haunting indifference to logic, German director Christian Petzold’s version of the myth is a study of the ways in which men and women misunderstand one another. May 30, 2021
Francesca Mari The True Cost of Living “Gross inequity begets precarity and suffering, which begets fear, shame, and frustration.” May 29, 2021
Julie Mehretu, John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, and twenty-nine others Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara The Cuban government is detaining the artist solely for expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights. May 26, 2021
Jon Allsop Cummings’s Last Stand The political adviser who helped Boris Johnson ride the Brexit wave into power has turned on him over the government’s pandemic record. But whose nemesis will it prove? May 25, 2021
Fintan O’Toole Theater, Politics, and Critic “The way the personal and the political overlap in certain public lives can be illuminating for both arenas.” May 22, 2021
