Ali Smith’s latest novel falls flat
Gliff is a different sort of project, but still one which reveals a desire to comment on contemporary culture
Francesca Peacock
Thursday
Tuesday
Meeting Margaret Cavendish
The seventeenth-century philosopher and playwright was a trendsetting, quixotic genius
Monday
The brilliant, underappreciated work of Germaine Richier
Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be
Sunday
The surreal life of Leonora Carrington
The artist and writer’s life is the story of the twentieth century in microcosm
Sunday
What makes Berthe Morisot’s nudes so unique?
She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism
Thursday
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
Monday
Avoiding the brash side of Amsterdam
Best to concentrate on the aspects of the city that have remained timeless for centuries
Tuesday
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
Monday
Make art free, not digital
A museum sells off a collection in favor of NFTs and virtual exhibitions
Tuesday
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
Friday
The dynamic genius of Milton Avery
His work exists on the boundary of abstraction and realism
Sunday
The unfortunate misogyny of Philip Larkin
When he wasn’t obsessing over pornography, he could be truly insightful and touching
Monday
Mary Gaitskill and the body electric
Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?
Friday
Literature reminds us that indolence is underrated
What are we missing out on in our endless pursuit of productivity?
Friday
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
Sunday
The unsolved mystery of Marilyn Monroe
Who was she? Films like Blonde cast us into a hall of mirrors
Thursday
Lost in translation
Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?
Wednesday
Virginia Woolf’s very own Bloomsday
Celebrations of her novel Mrs. Dalloway should be more raucous than they are
Wednesday
Searching for the American summer novel
It’s a time of nostalgia, of seeking that which is perpetually, unrecoverably lost
Thursday
A quiet delight
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed
