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Patience, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 1, 2023 • by Social Research

The Fall 2023 issue of Social Research explores the meaning of patience, offers new insights into suffering, forbearance, divine authority, human queueing behavior, delayed gratification, savings behavior, and more....

Patience, the New Issue of Social Research

Art & Design

A Conversation with David Gissen about The Architecture of Disability

Rethinking a city from a disability perspective goes beyond installing curb cuts

October 25, 2023 • by Bella Okuya and David Gissen

In his latest book, Parsons Professor David Gissen presents a new take on the discussion of architecture and disability....

A Conversation with David Gissen about The Architecture of Disability

The Arts

Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Art for the Millions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 2, 2023 • by Mitchell Abidor

The MET's new exhibition, "Art for the Millions" shows the various ways that artists and left-wing organizations reacted to and inflected the social and political movements of the time. ...

Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Film & Performing Arts

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime

Christopher Nolan limns the limits of what cinema can reveal

September 19, 2023 • by Jacob Walters

Nolan’s version of Oppenheimer fits right in: an aloof scientist tormented by the majesty of the unseen. ...

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime

Film & Performing Arts

An Overlooked Film Gem from Malta

Why Luzzu represents more than simply one man’s struggle to fish

September 7, 2023 • by Stella Crouch

Luzzu gives viewers a chance to learn about Maltese culture and language through a compelling story. When Luzzu was released in Malta, audiences felt joy at watching a film in their language, starring actual Maltese people. ...

Literature

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

PEN America World Voices Festival authors discuss how writing helps us understand ourselves

September 6, 2023 • by Eloisa Amezcua, María Fernanda Ampuero, José Olivarez and Javier Zamora

Poet Eloisa Amezcua, Zamora, Olivarez, and Ampuero explore how writing helps us grasp our identity, our sociopolitical context, and provokes deeper conversations about love....

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

Literature

Matters of Offense

A PEN America World Voices Festival conversation on free speech, appropriation, and what it takes to be an artist

September 5, 2023 • by Ayad Akhtar and Eboo Patel

In an intimate dialogue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, novelist, and President of PEN America Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies) and Interfaith America Founder and President Eboo Patel (We Need to Build) explore the climate of self-censorship facing writers, question whether marginalization is a useful category in art, and discuss the dangers of ...

Feminism

The Barbie Curse

Can a girl’s first icon of can-do power ever be good enough?

August 30, 2023 • by Honor McConnell

Barbie is the most popular doll in the world, and the most hated....

Reviews

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

How obscuring the public side of public-private partnerships from FDR to Clinton rendered the liberal state politically precarious

June 27, 2023 • by Henry Tonks

The DLC, soon to anoint Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas as their chairman and presidential standard-bearer, were leaving the legacy of New Deal and postwar liberalism behind. They were, after all, “New Democrats.” Or were they? ...

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

The Arts

Don’t Read the Wall Text

A first-time visitor confronts the jargon of International Art English at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

June 21, 2023 • by Shweta Nandakumar

A first-time visitor confronts the jargon of International Art English in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale wall text...

Gender

Eau du Easy Mark

An excerpt from Lucky Dogs: A Novel

June 8, 2023 • by Helen Schulman

My natural scent could be called “eau du easy mark,” an odor only vermin can detect, a spicy mélange of paralysis perfume with prior-history-of-abuse essence....

Activism

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs

June 6, 2023 • by Daniel Fernandez

Brooklyn Public Library’s entrance artwork propagates a colonialist, white supremacist vision that is inseparable from Nazism....

The Arts

Patience, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

A Conversation with David Gissen about The Architecture of Disability

Rethinking a city from a disability perspective goes beyond installing curb cuts

Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Art for the Millions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime

Christopher Nolan limns the limits of what cinema can reveal

An Overlooked Film Gem from Malta

Why Luzzu represents more than simply one man’s struggle to fish

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

PEN America World Voices Festival authors discuss how writing helps us understand ourselves

Matters of Offense

A PEN America World Voices Festival conversation on free speech, appropriation, and what it takes to be an artist

The Barbie Curse

Can a girl’s first icon of can-do power ever be good enough?

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

How obscuring the public side of public-private partnerships from FDR to Clinton rendered the liberal state politically precarious

Don’t Read the Wall Text

A first-time visitor confronts the jargon of International Art English at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Eau du Easy Mark

An excerpt from Lucky Dogs: A Novel

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs

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