Books, Arts, and Culture

“As I see it,” wrote Arnautoff in 1935, “the artist is a critic of society.” That critical stance underpinned The Life of George Washington and much...

Whatever else one might think of Walter Gropius—the pioneering German architect who founded the Bauhaus a century ago this year and thereby earned an irrevocable place...

Nearly half a century after the Clean Air Act instituted the world’s most stringent emissions controls, the problem of air pollution is far from being solved...

I spent the month of August traveling by train from Berlin to Budapest and living out of just a backpack. I’m a reader accustomed to a...

Although I am working a regular, over-the-summer, 9-to-5 these days, I still like to return to books about going to school right before the end of...

Happy Mexican Independence Day, fellow readers! September 16 marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence. The war lasted 11 years, but...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, sponsored by Flatiron Books. “Penguin Random House has announced a...