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Art & Design

Becca Rothfeld’s Essays in Praise of Excess

A celebrated young critic hungry for more than our contemporary culture typically offers

October 17, 2024 • by Emma Minor

Like William Blake, Becca Rothfeld believes that “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” A widely praised young critic (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Prize for Criticism and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism), Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for The ...

Becca Rothfeld’s Essays in Praise of Excess

Higher Ed

Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material

A novelist questions the price artists pay when mining personal life for inspiration

September 20, 2024 • by Emma Minor

The Material opens with a classroom of aspiring comedians workshopping their latest creations: “On Wednesdays, three of them had to perform, in turn, a four-to-six-minute routine that the whole class then proceeded to rip apart, joke by joke, beat by beat, until there wasn't anything left and the budding comedians ...

Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material

Interviews

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child

The author on the process of finding her new novel

May 13, 2024 • by Ann Hood and Emma Minor

Author Ann Hood sits down with Emma Minor to discuss how her new novel THE STOLEN CHILD explores the complexities of forgiveness....

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s <em>The Stolen Child</em>

Film & Performing Arts

A Band on the Brink of Collapse

David Adjmi’s Stereophonic heads to Broadway

April 9, 2024 • by Emma Minor

The image of musicians in a recording studio beset by interpersonal tensions—while making their best music—is so familiar it leads a listener to wonder, Is the strife all somehow necessary?...