Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
Maya Chen attends “Funny Girl” to find the music that makes her dance, even with a sprained ankle.
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”
Shoshana Olidort reviews Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House.”
A double-header episode about two new novels that each feature high stakes feats of translation.
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Office-core hyperobjects give Chase Bucklew the technocreeps at Katherine Behar’s UC Irvine solo exhibition.
Manan Kapoor reviews “Songs of an Eastern Humanist” by Edward Said.
Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman.
Jazz group Outside World leads Tosten Burks to self-reflection at their Hollywood release show.
In the first of a series, Osagie K. Obasogie explores the history and persistence of eugenics in science, medicine, and elsewhere.
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Woo-hoo! Brittany Menjivar gets her head checked by a jumbo jet at Blur’s pre-Coachella warm-up show in Pomona.
Edward Carver reviews Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”
Naa Oyo A. Kwate lauds Uché Blackstock’s grounded memoir about racism in medicine and denounces Constance Hilliard’s genetic explanation for Black...