Arts & Culture
Navigating James Baldwin’s legacy
Greg Garrett provides a road map for the terrain of the prophetic writer’s work and thought.
The uniquely American story of Crownsville Hospital
Antonia Hylton digs into the history of a Maryland asylum that forced its Black patients to build their own facilities.
Anthony Hecht’s poetic vision
W. H. Auden’s most distinguished heir wrote poems that bear witness to history with great depth of feeling.
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.
