Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Kin,” “The Optimists,” “The Elusive Body,” and “Leaving Home.”
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“Kin,” “The Optimists,” “The Elusive Body,” and “Leaving Home.”
How the artists in this year’s survey do or, more often, don’t acknowledge those who paved the way for them
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings
The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home
The designer has experienced a fair amount of tumult in his life. But “Marc by Sofia” addresses none of this, instead stringing together an assortment of gauzy images
Both of my parents were in hospice, on opposite coasts. Then I found out that I had breast cancer
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on the relationship between the two countries, and how Cubans might feel about an American intervention
Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict
Historical dramas from the directors Sergei Loznitsa and Annemarie Jacir are built around courageous acts of opposition
What drew many people to the city was not luxury but rather stability, and the feeling of remove from war. As Iran attacks the U.A.E., that sense of distance is eroding
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings
A Washington, D.C., native says goodbye to the arts complex before Trump’s wrecking crew goes to work on it