Arts & Culture
Retelling a radical reformer’s story
Like Felix Manz himself, Jason Landsel’s graphic novel about him refuses to compromise its integrity to find an audience.
Fargo and Wicked Little Letters take on the patriarchy
It’s hard to dramatize the evils of patriarchy without falling into melodrama or historical difference.
Monsters and their beautiful work
Claire Dederer thinks through what it means to consume art produced by people who have said or done terrible things.
A world with no boundaries
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories of love and defiance escape the plane of realism.
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
A refugee’s fragmented memory
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s fractured and stirring memoir is haunted by war—and religion.
The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed
Deadloch is one of the funniest, smartest, most unexpected delights I have watched in a long time.
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
Linda Ekstrom’s Pursed (upper left) and Mary (upper right, detail below)
A leather-bound Bible hangs on the gallery wall, a strap running beneath its spine....
Eastertide
for Andrew Mead
I am watching a moose ripple out of his antlers. I am watching Tollund Man, arm-in-arm with Judy Garland. I am trying to believe...