Bird’s-Eye View
Jennifer Ackerman on How Birds Adapt, Survive, and Think By Mark Leviton
Jennifer Ackerman on How Birds Adapt, Survive, and Think By Mark Leviton
An art historian locates the political in paint
Ariana Reines’s art of anguished witnessing
Meet an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age? From the esoteric world of book artists…
A conversation with Sarah Schulman about solidarity and a life spent writing and fighting The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity BY Sarah Schulman. New York: Thesis. 320 pages. $30. WHEN…
A devoted yet amoral creature ensures a girl’s blood sugar stays up. A gory ritual creates a charming woman’s perfect smile. A neglected and overworked wife is slowly subsumed by…
On a spring evening in 2016, the day after Donald Trump won a series of primaries cementing his candidacy, I stepped into a hushed auditorium in midtown Manhattan and found…
In November 2024, PEN America released its key findings from over ten thousand documented cases of book bans that occurred in the 2023–2024 school year: Thirty-nine percent of reported books…
The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944,…