Arts & Culture
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood
by Nina Pasquini
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Bringing the Magic
The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
On Being “Printerly”
An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.
by Murray Whyte