Stories Are Weapons
A new book by Annalee Newitz chronicles the use of storytelling as propagandistic tool. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, by Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton, 24…
A new book by Annalee Newitz chronicles the use of storytelling as propagandistic tool. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, by Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton, 24…
In a film by Richard Linklater loosely based on a true story, a philosophy professor finds his calling as a fake professional killer for police stings. Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in Hit M…
A stunning retrospective of over two hundred ceramics works, paintings, and textiles by the virtuoso artist. Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, installation view. Courtesy the Noguchi Museum. …
Earnest pleasures remain lushly undiminished in Francis Ford Coppola's new Reprise of the 1982 film starring Teri Garr. Teri Garr as Frannie in One from the Heart. Courtesy Rialto Pictures.…
Dream spaces, blurred faces: a comparative exhibition illuminates the overlap in the portraiture of the two photographers. Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream I…
In the composer's latest album, a slow-burning mélange of jazz standards, Urdu poetry, and '80s Bollywood pop. Night Reign, by Arooj Aftab, Verve 'Â Â 'Â Â ' Nightfall occu…
Flora, fauna, fun with form: a new book by Lauren Cook. Sex Goblin, by Lauren Cook, Nightboat Books, 174 pages, $17.95 'Â Â 'Â Â ' The miffed and determined young aardvark s…
The actress who brought an enigmatic expressiveness to Jacques Rivette's '70s and '80s films about female friendships and alliances. Bulle Ogier as Pauline/Émilie in Out 1. Courtesy Kin…
The radical visionary who created a psychotherapeutic collective in Vichy France. Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, installation view. Courtesy America…
Riotous color, crisp compositions, and a continued defiance of figurative-vs.-abstract binaries. Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery…
Pedro Lemebel wields a sharp tongue and stylistic excess in crónicas that are both reckoning and reclamation. A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays, by Pedro Lemebel, translat…
In a two-part retrospective of the director's oeuvre, the 1956 tragic romance Sound in the Mist is a powerful standout. Ken Uehara as Kazuhiko Onuma and Michiyo Kogure as Tsuruko in Sound i…
Nearly two hundred works across textiles, mosaics, paintings, graphic design, and other media showcase the expansiveness of the artist's creative energy. Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, instal…
In remembrance of the sound and voice of the indelible musician and recording engineer. Steve Albini, backstage, New York City, 1985. Photo: Gail Butensky. 1962"2024 'Â Â 'Â Â…
In Pierre Creton's latest film, a delightfully unpredictable tale of couplings and throuplings in rural northwest France. Antoine Pirotte as young Pierre-Joseph in A Prince. Courtesy Strand…
Marriage, motherhood, menopause, masturbation, and a motel: a new novel by Miranda July. All Fours, by Miranda July, Riverhead, 326 pages, $29 'Â Â 'Â Â ' Waifish and awkwar…
A stunning retrospective at MoMA holds a mirror to the artist's career-long focus on performance, movement, and landscape. Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, installation view. Courtesy M…
Earth to E.T. . . . ? Daniel Oberhaus's book investigates the history of human efforts to communicate with alien intelligence. Extraterrestrial Languages, Daniel Oberhaus, MIT Press, 252 p…
In Jane Schoenbrun's new puzzle of a film, deconstructed horror meets '90s coming-of-age queer narrative. Ian Foreman as Young Owen in I Saw the TV Glow. Courtesy A24. Photo: Spencer Pazer.…
Over one hundred works by expat artists who sought an escape from stateside restrictiveness in postwar France. Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946"1962, installation…
Legacy Russell traces the history of black representation in mainstream media and its leadup to 2010s black internet. Black Meme: A History of the Images That Make Us, by Legacy Russell, Ve…
A new book captures the vibes of visionary composer and cellist Arthur Russell. Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, by Richard King, Anthology Editions, 296 pages, $50 'Â …
Danielle Dutton's new genre-defying collection is a garden of earthly delights, losses, and discursions. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, by Danielle Dutton, Coffee House Press, 169 pages, $1…
Against a strikingly mercurial score, something wayward this way comes in the latest film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Hitoshi Omika as Takumi in Evil Does Not Exist. Courtesy Cinetic Media. E…
Seven works by the late artist invite deceleration and contemplative witnessing. Nancy Brooks Brody: Ode, installation view. Courtesy Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Nancy Brooks Brody: O…