Israeli artist turns plastic pollution into ‘Earth Poetica’
In Beverly Barkat’s quest to connect people with nature, she found that environmental waste could be a powerful medium
He lost fingers in an accident. Now it’s inspiring his art
After a life-changing injury with a table saw blade, John Powers asked friends to help sculpt a solution. His project to regain his craft is the most important art he’s done yet
Rubble and repression: An intimate look at Germany in the decade after Hitler
The book ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955,’ describes how the majority of surviving Germans were preoccupied with their own suffering
'Tragedy of Macbeth' review
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play a toxic power couple in Joel Coen’s crackling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play
Norman Mailer book to be released by Skyhorse
The independent press acquired the title after Random House, the writer’s longtime publisher, declined to make an offer
New books update
our thinking about
cruelty
Some recent books describe the kind of cruelty that alienates and isolates, gliding along the rails of obliviousness, or hidden by feelings of shame
NYT critics’ top books of 2021
The staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year
Revelling in the joys of books in Baghdad
It’s not even the bigger book fair of the same name that the Iraqi government has sponsored for decades
Naples is once again a home for cinema
For “The Hand of God,” Sorrentino has returned to Naples, whose cultural profile has been lifted in recent years by the Ferrante novels and films like “Gomorrah”
