The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Reviewed

If every label in “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” the eighty-first installment of the Whitney Biennial, were peeled off the walls and tossed into the Hudson, what would happen? Some sections would get more confusing, of course. When you walked through the yellow-lit gallery on the museum’s sixth floor, you probably wouldn’t suppose that … Read more

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far

Virtually every song that Bruce Springsteen has ever written is now owned by Sony, which is reported to have paid five hundred and fifty million dollars for the catalogue. For Bellos, a comparative-literature professor at Princeton, and Montagu, an intellectual-property lawyer, the story of Sony’s big Springsteen buy epitomizes a troubling trend: the rights to … Read more

‘Manhunt’: First Look at the Long-Awaited Show About Hunting Lincoln’s Killer

In our own age of extreme division and distrust, Beletsky believes this story of an effort to violently unseat the president, and attack members of his war cabinet on the same night, still resonates because it speaks to “the shattering of norms in how we deal with disputes—and just our sense of safety.” “I think … Read more

The Best Books of 2023

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are … Read more