At age 92, Yoko Ono has for decades been a celebrated artist with art installations and performances in galleries and…
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“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too…
Want to find out why you do the things you do but don’t want to see a psychologist, how about…
The Library of America’s ‘African American Poetry: 250 years of Struggle and Song’ is stunning in its historic and literary…
Edmund White is one of the most prolific and esteemed writers of his generation of post-liberation, gay writers. His novels…
The cover of Harald Jähner’s ‘Vertigo’ has scantily clad dancers silhouettes scaling a ladder under a silvery threshold – a…
‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is Edwin Frank’s vigorous study of the evolution of the 20th century novel and the novelists who redirected…
David Greenberg’s new biography of John Lewis includes a photograph of the Congressman at age 80, on site at the…
The Whitney Museum exhibit Edges of Ailey is breathtaking in its artistic scope and documentation of the life, work and…
André Aciman’s ‘Out of Egypt’ made his reputation when it was published in 1995 and he followed it up with…
‘The Showman’ by TIME Magazine correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the first year of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and into…
1945 In British-colonized Malaysia, Cecily is a mother of four and the dutiful wife to her husband who is a…
The Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and LiberationBy Raquel WillisSt. Martin’s Press$29; hardcover; photos www.stmartins.com Black transgender writer…
If a friend approached you and said, “hey, let’s talk about mapping the ocean floor,” you might (politely) yawn. Sounds…