A turbine spins inside the main generating hall at the Kaprun Limberg II pumped storage power plant in Kaprun, Austria. Pumped-hydro plants like Kaprun, with 830 megawatts of capacity, can store ...
On an early fall afternoon at a dry-pot restaurant in the East Village, the critic Andrea Long Chu is talking about herself, which is, by her account, one of her favorite things to do. So is numbing ...
Short, sharp shock, like three bullets from Valerie Solanas’s gun, is the resounding effect of what the critic Andrea Long Chu writes. That’s how her high school English teacher phrased it—“after a ...
It is the fate of many writers to excel at what they most despise and fail at what they most acclaim. The critic Susan Sontag fancied herself a novelist despite the evident mediocrity of her stiffly ...