Why Nobody Knows Moholy-Nagy’s Name

By Jeannette Cooperman

Moholy-Nagy had never gone to art school, and he had never taught. He had an almost childlike interest in anything new, especially the machines that were transforming industry.

Arts & Letters | Dispatches

Part of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Is Gone

By John Griswold

In Louisiana’s future, the EPA says, there will be “retreating shores,” stronger and more frequent hurricanes, more flooding, more heat than ever, and reduced crop and fishery yields. And as disasters linked to climate change increase in scale and number, we can all expect to pay for them, with interrupted commerce and supply lines, higher insurance rates, and more federal aid for recoveries like this one.

Essays

The Wonder World of Whiteness

By Gerald Early

I am not so sure if Williamson is a conservative as much as he is a contrarian, at times a kind of White Stanley Crouch, though less verbose. At times, a kind of Hunter Thompson but less gonzo. I did not always agree with his interpretation of the world as he saw it, but I always found what he saw stimulating and more than occasionally trenchant.

Reviews

The Attention Economy

By Jeannette Cooperman

We talk about paying attention, as though it is a debt—and these days, attention is definitely currency. We still use money and buy material stuff, but these transactions all begin by gaining our limited attention.

Essays

The House, and How to Run It

By Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

Ball’s portrait of Pelosi’s life in politics is a detailed and exhaustive exploration of Pelosi’s life in politics–an important project that fills a needed gap. But the very nature of the book reveals that the role of gender in negotiation is complex, and Ball’s handling of the issue represents a meta-commentary on the challenge of understanding it.

Reviews

Nancy Pelosi’s Iron-Fisted Housekeeping

By Claude R. Marx

While Susan Page conducted several interviews with her subject and clearly admires her, Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Political Power is no work of is hagiography.

Reviews

Part of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Is Gone

By John Griswold

In Louisiana’s future, the EPA says, there will be “retreating shores,” stronger and more frequent hurricanes, more flooding, more heat than ever, and reduced crop and fishery yields. And as disasters linked to climate change increase in scale and number, we can all expect to pay for them, with interrupted commerce and supply lines, higher insurance rates, and more federal aid for recoveries like this one.

Essays

Why We Need Lupin

By Jeannette Cooperman

Each episode of "Lupin" brings the joy of a man living by his wits and prevailing, in a clever and playful way. We do not do a lot of that.

Uncategorized | Dispatches

Why We Know Next to Nothing About Nubia

By Jeannette Cooperman

A civilization lost in translation? One whose stories had to be told by others? Those are factors, but the bigger piece, the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Nubia exhibit confirms, is that Westerners were blinded by their own assumptions.

Uncategorized | Dispatches

Q&A: A Peek at The Kimono Tattoo

By Jeannette Cooperman

Prof. Rebecca Copeland, in her home with her collection of kimonos (Credit Joe Angeles/Washington University)     I so enjoyed Dr. Rebecca Copeland’s mystery, The Kimono Tattoo, that I wanted to solve the next mystery. Not the sequel (though she is writing one) but…

Uncategorized | Dispatches

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