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From Perte Loss, 1979. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation. In 1979, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha submitted a proposal…

Wallace Shawn in The Fever. Photograph by Julieta Cervantes. At an open rehearsal last fall of Wallace Shawn’s new play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, the director, André Gregory, Shawn’s longtime collaborator…

The literary agent is a mysterious and camera-shy creature, rustling busily in the literary undergrowth, her tracks visible only to those familiar with the species and its habits. If we were in…

Henri-Charles Guérard, Composite print of Japanese masks and a death’s-head (1888), from the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Public domain. “Wanna see a dead body?” Milo asks from the back seat….

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up…

© Suhrkamp Verlag, courtesy of New Directions. Wolfgang Koeppen, the maestro dirigent of the post-Nazi German-language novel, was born in the cold old Prussian port of Greifswald in 1906, a bastard, as…

Installation view of MONUMENTS, October 23, 2025 to May 3, 2026, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Brick. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen….

Henri Matisse, View of Notre Dame, 1914, oil on canvas, 58 x 37 ⅛ in, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. The Ignorant Art Historian is a series by the art critic Hal…

Grahamdubya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. This is the introduction to a four-part series by the art critic and historian Hal Foster, resulting from a kind of ritual he devised with…

The Egg under construction circa 1976., via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Entering Albany by highway from the south, as a fleet of buses did in late February, requires weaving through a nest…