American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’
By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.
https://nytimes.com/2025/11/10/book…
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day – “it’s a love story about a friendship”
With a career spanning more than three decades, Ira Sachs is one of the most acclaimed American independent filmmakers of his generation with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney.
https://thequeerreview.com/2025/11/…
Who My Child Was and Would Be
When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
Just delicious.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective
The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
https://newyorker.com/news/our-loca…
Where Housing Meets Humanity
By my pal Sam Lubell!
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
Our Housing Crisis Is a Monumental Failure of Design
America’s housing crisis is not a glitch in the system—it’s a feature.
https://commonedge.org/our-housing-…
What a 1970s Commune in Arizona Got Right About Desert Urbanism
Architect Paolo Soleri’s experimental city, Arcosanti, was planned for 5,000 people; 50 years later, it holds just a fraction of that figure. But it still has lessons for living in extreme heat.
https://bloomberg.com/news/features…
Would You Work for Trump?
Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice.
https://commonedge.org/would-you-wo…
Gordon Matta-Clark’s Roving Eye
Few know the artist as a photographer. But he was obsessive about capturing the early years of graffiti.
https://curbed.com/article/gordon-m…
Hymn to a Life
A biography of poet James Schuyler.
https://bookforum.com/print/3202/hy…
The Writer Who Turned Gossip Into Art
Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she’s the one with something to say.
https://nytimes.com/2025/10/13/t-ma…
A Miraculous Trove of Pre-Stonewall Secrets
In the 1960s, Casa Susanna empowered a community of self-identified cross-dressers at a time when gender nonconformity was a crime.
https://aperture.org/editorial/a-mi…
What Our Intergenerational Household Taught All of Us About Care
For Courtney E. Martin, her multi-generational household has been an advanced education in teamwork, patience, connection, and love.
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ar…
Postcard from the Edge
The most decisive year in LA’s modern history is around the corner. Will the city meet the moment?
https://nyra.nyc/articles/postcard-…
Ocean Vuong on smalltown queer life, Studio Ghibli’s influence, and why ‘even fiction is an artful lie’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Renowned writer Ocean Vuong has a rare talent: not only is he a celebrated poet but a bestselling author too.
https://attitude.co.uk/culture/ocea…
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time.
https://theguardian.com/books/2025/…
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
Enslavement, immolation and a HIV diagnosis: the artists expressing harsh truths with collage
From queer relationships and migration to AI and colonial histories, a huge range of artists have spliced together photography and archive material to create images that challenge history as we know it.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
From the Gaza Flotilla: “I’m Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It”
I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.
https://thenation.com/article/world…
The Lost Soul of Oakland: Living Large in Lower Rockridge
The neighborhood in Oakland where I live, Lower Rockridge—or Baja Rockridge, as I like to call it—is shifting from a community rooted in relationships to one increasingly defined by transactions.
https://commonedge.org/the-lost-sou…
Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’
The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all its complexity.
https://nytimes.com/2025/09/25/arts…
What to Make of the Mother Who Made You
A new memoir by Arundhati Roy, about a formidable matriarch, joins a host of recent books in which daughters reckon with mothers who are too much, not enough, or both at once.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
How MoMA’s New Director Welcomed a Cuban Master to the Museum
Cuba balked at lending the museum work, but Christophe Cherix threw his firepower into assembling a global survey of Wifredo Lam.
https://nytimes.com/2025/09/17/arts…
Power Shift
In New Orleans, locals frustrated by an unaccountable energy utility are building a network of community resilience hubs. At the heart of the project is a question: How do we organize power?
https://placesjournal.org/article/p…
