The best of TNR’s arts and culture coverage

The World Is Finally Ready for Beverly Glenn-Copeland

After 50 years of living in rural obscurity, the now-legendary electronic musician has a message for the young.

By Josephine Livingstone

The Generation That Was Exhausted

When millennials talk about being burned out, they are pointing to the failures of capitalism.
By Scott W. Stern

Black Cinema Matters

Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.
By Artel Great

Inside the FBI’s File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies
By Jacob Silverman

Barack Obama’s Memoir Is Set to Be the Biggest Book This Year

The craziest year in publishing industry history just got crazier.
By Alex Shephard

The Personal History of David Copperfield and Emma Are Perfect Movies for a Pandemic

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.
By Josephine Livingstone

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