I Would Like to Know Her: On Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
The Lost Codex of Moctezuma (2024), oil on linen, 56 x 76 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches; Installation view, Raul Guerrero: Terra Incógnita , April 25 – June 8, 2024, David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle. Images courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political activism.
Tal Frieden reviews “Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba” by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro.
Matt Hanson reviews Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.”
Diana Arterian reviews Alison C. Rollins’s “Black Bell.”
“Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color is a sumptuous novel that captures the class, guilt, art, sex, and politics of 1950s Los Angeles” –Mark Haber.
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Emmeline Clein reviews Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom.”
Joshua Pearson examines the history of the term “hallucination” in the development and promotion of AI technology.
Miranda July speaks to Kate Wolf about her latest novel, “All Fours.”
Uttaran Das Gupta reviews Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto's anthology “Maya Nagari: Bombay-Mumbai, A City in Stories.”
Matthew Sorrento interviews poet and speculative fiction writer Linda D. Addison.
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