A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: January 2022 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
This past August marked 30 years since Hurricane Andrew pummeled the Caribbean and south Florida. On August 23, 1992, Andrew made landfall on the Bahamas’s Eleuthera Island as a Category 5 hurricane.... Read more »
Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a political novel with a difference. Most political novels deploy characters as symbols. To denounce totalitarianism, Animal Farm depicts dictators as pigs. To promote individualism, The Fountainhead... Read more »
Disco is much more than what they say it was. Grounded in multivocal Blacknesses—funk and gospel, rock and roll and rhythm and blues—with new technologies and new arrangements, the disco we follow... Read more »
Fiction Zadie Smith’s first foray into historical fiction, medieval magical realism from Salman Rushdie and Paul Murray’s Booker-shortlisted tragicomedy – Justine Jordan looks back on the year in fiction. Read all fiction... Read more »
Tributes poured in for the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer on Friday after friends said he was killed in a strike on Gaza. Alareer was one of the leaders of a young generation... Read more »
“They’re Made Out of Meat” has been produced as a radio play, adapted for two films, and quoted by Stephen Pinker, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and other scientists to evoke the philosophical conundrum... Read more »
Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus,” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the... Read more »