Pacific Standard Picks Archives

Detail from the cover of Sick by Porochista Khakpour.

PS Picks: Porochista Khakpour’s Unflinchingly Honest New Memoir

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

PS Picks: The New ‘Under One Roof’ Exhibit at New York’s Tenement Museum

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

PS Picks: ‘Ocean’s 8’ and Other Upcoming Female-Led Films

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: The American Black Film Festival

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: Kaitlin Prest’s Radiotopia Podcast ‘The Heart’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

Joan Didion on March 29th, 2007, in New York City.

PS Picks: Michelle Dean’s ‘Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

Activists hold signs in front of the the United States Supreme Court during the 2018 March for Life on January 19th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

PS Picks: Katie Watson’s ‘Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: The ‘Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today’ Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: The Conversation Around the Gun-Toting Christian Extremists of Ubisoft’s ‘Far Cry 5’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: Black Panther’s Hollywood Breakout

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli