new york times

Love it or loathe it, the New York Times Book Review recently celebrated 125 years. Where has this behemoth taken the literary world, and where can it go next?

The difficulties of condensing 400 years of racial injustice into a two-hour panel.

  Sophie Lucido Johnson (MFA 2017) is the ultimate cool kid and constant source of inspiration for the F Newsmagazine staff. As our former Managing...

The New York Times recently eliminated its news ombudsman position, and that's kind of a big deal.

The city must begin to pay attention to the reasons behind the uptick in Chicago's violent crime.

Iranian artist Atena Farghadani is sentenced to 12 years in jail for drawing members of the Iranian Parliament as animals, the question of 'What Makes a Woman?' is less Important than 'What Makes a Feminist?' and other things we've been reading.

A critique of Holland Cotter's review of the Carrie Mae Weems show.

Listening to Roberta Smith talk about her job during her lecture (yes, art criticism is her job — nothing more, nothing less) is similar to how she argues viewing art should be: it requires intuitive reaction, close inspection and zero pretentions.

Deconstructing a new linguistic trend.

A poignant documentary about one of fashion's foremost arbiters of taste and style