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In his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.

Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.

In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.

Jean-Paul Marat’s assassination transformed the reviled mouthpiece of revolutionary bloodthirstiness into the revered martyr of the people’s cause.

Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.

Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.

The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.

Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.

Wifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.

Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.

The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.

The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.