The Culture Pages Archives

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

PS Picks: German Playwright Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Love and Intrigue’

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

Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

A portrait of the stressed and shrinking American middle class.

Peter C. Baker

The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)

Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.

Peter C. Baker

Objects That Matter: Taxidermy

Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.

Jack Denton

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

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.

A Cure for White Fragility

A new book argues that we can't overcome racism unless white people are willing to be a little uncomfortable.

Peter C. Baker

Marvel Screenwriter Nicole Perlman Shatters the Glass Ceiling for Women in Sci-Fi

We spoke to Nicole Perlman about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

Katie Kilkenny

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