A new biography of Walter Benjamin stumbles on the problem his writing addressed: how to write history without taking the victor’s perspective

China’s command-like economy may be better suited to cope with technologically driven abundance

A review of Helen Oyeyemi's novel Boy, Snow, Bird

To find the villainous creditor class, we only have to look in the mirror. A review of Andrew Ross's Creditocracy

Looking past money to the sovereign power that makes it valuable

The BDS movement is enjoying success because even at home, Zionists are beginning to lose the PR battle

Elite education may impoverish and indebt young women and do little to get them a job, but at least it makes their eggs valuable

Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial has been a crib sheet for the market trends of contemporary art in the United States. These are the Cliffs Notes to the guide

Financialization depends on a standardized product. What happens when it’s applied to people?

The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling

With art that hopes to go too far, who gets to ask for forgiveness instead of permission?

Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetype of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were

The problem of exile: the real rupture happens when you return

How artist Ana Mendieta is unremembered

Online advertising is a self-regulated industry, which means you tangle with it entirely on its terms

Reports of a general “death taboo” have been greatly exaggerated. But there remains a disconnect between the shiny and seemingly disembodied memorials on social media platforms and the presence of the corpse