Art & Books
Drippy, Feathery, and Spiny Growths Spring from Hannes Hummels’ Otherworldly Flowers — Colossal
Cologne-based artist and designer Hannes Hummel has lengthy been within the intersection of digital instruments and nature. Beforehand collaborating on an elaborate assortment of synthetic specimens, Hummel’s newest venture pushes…
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Joining the Mile High Club on a Flight with Love Cloud
For $995, Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for…
‘Russia is the global enemy’: Fallout from Ukraine invasion could last for years
WASHINGTON — When he invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin almost certainly expected a quick, decisive conquest…
Watch Jiminy Cricket become Pinocchio’s conscience in an exclusive clip from Disney+’s live-action remake
It’s a tale as old as time — OK or at least as old as…
G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on…
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‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood
VERY COLD PEOPLEBy Sarah Manguso191 pages. Hogarth. $26.Anatomy may be destiny, as Freud said, but geography is also a major…
How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity
In “Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love,” a sendup of the socialists, anarchists and intellectuals…
‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point
VLADIMIRBy Julia May Jonas239 pages. Simon & Schuster. $27.To read “Vladimir” (or any number of campus novels published in the…
Book Review: ‘The Nineties,’ by Chuck Klosterman
They’re baaack.The catchphrase that long outlived “Poltergeist II,” the forgettable 1986 sequel to the memorable 1982 movie, now (the horror!)…
How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China
Gish Jen’s fans can take some solace when they finish one of her books: The characters might reappear in the…
12 New Books Coming in February
‘Black Cake,’ by Charmaine Wilkerson (Ballantine, Feb. 1)In this debut, an estranged brother and sister reunite after their mother’s death.…
Book Review: ‘The Books of Jacob,’ by Olga Tokarczuk
The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was, in 2019, a youthful winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was 57,…
Donna Barba Higuera Wins Newbery Medal for ‘The Last Cuentista’
“The Last Cuentista,” Donna Barba Higuera’s dystopian yet hopeful middle-grade novel, received this year’s John Newbery Medal on Monday, winning…