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Martha Gellhorn aboard the SS Rex in 1940

Sarah Menkedick

Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and the Art of Self-Reinvention

Julia Cooke’s biography of three writers illuminates the profound complexity of women’s lives without apologizing, justifying, or moralizing.

A black and white photograph titled Self‑Portrait Lying Down by Peter Hujar

Jeremy Lybarger

When Peter Hujar Met Paul Thek

A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s.

The Christophers Puts an Unrepentant Art Monster Through His Paces

An episodic image of Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in the film The Christophers.

The Christophers Puts an Unrepentant Art Monster Through His Paces

Books & the Arts

College graduates are needing to settle for jobs at places like coffee shops. Many of them are unionizing for better working conditions and wages. The illustration shows an underemployed recent graduate still in his graduation gown to point out the absurdity of his situation.

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

The Disillusioned College Grads Turning to the Labor Movement

At workplaces from Starbucks to Apple, highly educated downwardly mobile young people are organizing for better conditions.

A photo collage of three overlapping images of author Ben Lerner

Hannah Rosefield

Ben Lerner’s Transcription Is a Labyrinth of Allusions

The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.