Uncovering the CIA’s Funding of American Literary Journals

Author Joel Whitney in conversation with Rob Spillman

“The Lobster” Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on Death, Love, & International Cinema

The man behind cult favorite “Dogtooth” talks about his new work with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.

A Re-Appraisal of Martha Rosler’s Iconic Photomontages

Updating “House Beautiful” for the ongoing war on terror.

Uncovering Racism at the Heart of the Art World

Terence Trouillot reviews Susan E. Cahan’s history of black exclusion by New York art museums.

Disobeying History with Don Mee Choi

Roland Barthes, Gertrude Stein, and the Legacies of the Korean and Vietnamese Wars

Don Mee Choi quotes Gertrude Stein’s Wars I Have Seen in the epigraph of her new collection of poetry…

“The Network Is Hostile”: Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum on the Future of Surveillance

The City That Wasn’t

Pierre Alexandre de Looz on the ghosts of New York’s unbuilt past.

Lucas Blalock’s Low Comedy

The photographer on Cubism, Brecht, and the magnifying force of Photoshop

The Cocky, Indulgent, Nihilistic Virtuosity of Daniel Saldaña París

Ottessa Moshfegh talks to the novelist of “Among Strange Victims” about the freedom of feeling doomed.

The Unique Sounds of a Mauritanian Wedding

Our series Field Recordings debuts with a piece by Che Chen