U.S. Vice President JD Vance built his name on a caricature, a hillbilly morality play dressed up as sociology. His ...

‘Elegies’ by Becky Kolsrud at JTT Gallery installation view Becky Kolsrud / JTT Gallery Kolsrud pulls from a wide aesthetic vocabulary to articulate her anguish. Consider her painting Inscape ...

The Black body is constantly attacked, violated, dehumanized. So, what happens when it is completely removed from a work of art? When artists of color pivot the focus away from the body and toward a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on the series and watch for more ...

Librarians are going to have a hard job deciding where to shelve Ayad Akhtar’s bracing and revealing new book. "Homeland Elegies" (Little, Brown, 343 pp., ★★★½ out of four) follows the story of a ...

Back in 2012, I interviewed Ayad Akhtar in front of a live audience at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Akhtar was still a year away from winning the Pulitzer Prize for his dynamic drama ...

An elegy is a mournful poem expressing regret for something lost. Ayad Akhtar’s brilliant new novel, “Homeland Elegies,” mourns an America that has lost its way in the half-century since it welcomed ...

The 'Big Sick' actor will also be an executive producer of a limited series based on Ayad Akhtar's acclaimed novel. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor The Disney-owned cable outlet won the ...

“Passionate, Disturbing, Unputdownable” is how the author Salman Rushdie describes Ayad Akhtar’s latest novel, “Homeland Elegies” in a blurb. Indeed, the book, which scampers between memoir and ...