3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (931+ words) Literary translation is a personal and ever-evolving pursuit. No project will be conceived of or approached the same exact way as another. Literary translators are tasked with balancing a faithful translation with demands of art, honoring, and grounding the work…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1797+ words) Portrait of Emily Rauh Pulitzer, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Emily Rauh Pulitzer: It’s the library of collectors—not of an institution—because there are great strengths and weaknesses. It goes back to books that Joe—Joseph Pulitzer Jr....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1338+ words) The Brooklyn Rail When an artist departs this realm at a relatively early age, acolytes frequently seek a sense of how that curtailed creativity would have evolved. Miles Davis was expected to continually enhance his interest in funk, groove, electronics,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1214+ words) The Brooklyn Rail John Coltrane. Creative Commons License. As his life unfolded, it became increasingly clear that John Coltrane was destined for greatness. Not because he was a prodigy—far from it. Coltrane was a journeyman, moving from North Carolina…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (226+ words) Martin Scorsese and Oscar Isaac in In the Hand of Dante (dir. Julian Schnabel, 2025). Courtesy Netflix. Risen from post-9/11 ashes and founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff with an ethos of hope, the Tribeca Festival…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (989+ words) Portrait of Malcolm Peacock, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Malcolm Peacock: I think that what I’ve become interested in—and in fact what I was already interested in prior to making Five—is the situation the work is traveling…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (542+ words) The Brooklyn Rail On a corner that formerly housed a gas station in the gentrifying neighborhood of Clinton Hill, a clean white box with massive windows and orange entry points, 272 Greene Avenue, designed by Inès Lamunière of Switzerland and architect…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1493+ words) When poet Tom Sleigh’s aging mother asked him to research how she could take her own life, he thought this request would never come to be. Years later, though, he sat by her side with family, friends, and doctors in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1028+ words) The first US exhibition of Shipibo-Konibo artist Chonon Bensho, Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow, curated by Starasea Camara at ISLAA, centers the artist’s voice—quite literally. Descending into the institution’s basement, a smaller, lower-ceilinged space than the galleries…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (948+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Because Coltrane had such a strong relationship with Impulse! producer Bob Thiele, his endorsement counted for a lot. Fellow tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp (whose avant-garde credentials were impeccable; he’d worked with Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, and…...