Lucas Stoffel

Book Review: On grief, witness, and the perilous tenderness of loving another person without trying to reorganize their soul in “Boy, Refracted At Wat Xieng Thong after rain, a solitary figure, a phone, and the Tree of Life hold the book’s central tension in one suspended image: grief on the verge of becoming witness, fracture, and form. Most novels about AI ask whether a machine can feel. “Boy, Refracted” asks a nastier question: what does it look like when love arrives as

Nice Girls Don't Win Book Review: If you only know Parvati Shallow from Survivor, you know maybe ten percent of this story. And honestly, the ten percent you know is probably the least interesting part. This memoir starts where most people wouldn't expect: a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru. Parvati grew up inside that world, and the early chapters about her childhood — the control, the manipulation, the slow understanding that the authority figure she trust

Jerry Saltz has been the art critic at New York Magazine and its offshoot Vulture for years, and before that he spent over a decade at the Village Voice. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018. The man has spent his entire adult life looking at art, arguing about art, and thinking about what makes art matter. So when he sits down to write