Winter 2023
A Horse, of Course
Alix Browne considers the enduring presence of horses in the contemporary imagination.
Kiss Me, Stupid
Carlos Valladares mines the history of the romantic comedy and proposes an expanded canon for the genre.
The Art of Biography: Cosmic Scholar, The Life & Times of Harry Smith
Raymond Foye sits down with John Szwed to discuss his recent biography of the experimental polymath.
Benjamin Moser: The Upside-Down World
Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of biographies of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag, returns with a new book, The Upside-Down World, which tracks his decades-long engagement with the Dutch masters. Here he speaks with Josh Zajdman about the genesis of the project, the importance of judging your subjects, and the danger of art.
Sarah Sze: Timelapse
Francine Prose ruminates on temporality, fragility, and strength following a visit to Sarah Sze’s exhibition Timelapse at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Between Shadow and Light
Scholar and researcher Yves Guignard, who is working on Balthus’s archives for a revision of the Balthus catalogue raisonné, examines the artist’s engagement with drawing, arguing for a more concerted attention to these works than scholarship has paid them.
Carol Bove
Poet Ariana Reines responds to the work of Carol Bove.
A Vera Tatum Novel By Leonora McCrae By: Part 4
The final installment of a short story by Percival Everett.
Mount Fuji in Cinema: Satyajit Ray’s Woodblock Art
In the first installment of a two-part feature, novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri arrives at a more nuanced understanding of the filmmaker Satyajit Ray by tracing the global impacts of woodblock printing, following its perspective and language as it circulated in the last three centuries.