A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

By Walker Caplan | July 7, 2021

Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the

Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the "beautiful time capsule" of film noir.

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How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

Paul Legault on Art That Shows You You’re Not Dead

By Paul Legault | July 7, 2021

Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

“These records give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am.”

By Jessica Hopper | July 7, 2021

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

Julia Baird on the Long, Hard Work of Activism

By Julia Baird | July 7, 2021

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

Encounters With a Nation, Then and Now

By Tim Parks | July 7, 2021

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On E.M. Forster’s <em>Maurice</em> and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

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A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

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