Articles of Note

Edward Said’s Orientalism started a politics of blame that rapidly spread in the academy. He spent decades trying to stanch it  ... more »


New Books

Helen Frankenthaler and the mainstreaming of the avant-garde. In 1950s New York, painting's culture looked like pop culture  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

The new literary moralism. Is this frenzy for censure and the expansion of the definition of harm how we’ll correct the inequities of our time?  ... more »