Andrea Long Chu on her new book, Authority; the so-called crisis of criticism; and how she chooses her subjects.

The aesthetic and layers of symbolism surrounding these albums have inspired me as a visual artist as well ... bleed into each other. Sometimes I obey the whims of the muses; other times ...

Buddy Nealson was the Negro who had formulated the Communist position for the American Negro; he had made speeches in the Kremlin; he had spoken before Stalin himself. “Why does Nealson call me that?” ...

The first time it happened, I assumed their college was so rinky-dink that they were sparing me the embarrassment ... where the primary aesthetic was linoleum. It’s all a form of privilege ...

Two downtown Ontario buildings that were nearly given up for dead are now back to life after a nearly $8 million private investment. The showpiece is the 1923 building on the northeast corner of ...

Yet your work also has this superlative aesthetic quality which makes it outstanding. How you have you reconciled this, raising the bar with all the participants? Tessa Hunkin They help me willingly ...