Jennifer Kabat | The New York Review of Books

Jennifer Kabat

Jennifer Kabat’s essays have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, Frieze, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The White Review. Recently chosen for Best American Essays 2018, she’s working on a book GHOSTLANDS, exploring the histories of progressive values from the modernist suburb where she grew up to where she lives now in the Catskill Mountains. She teaches at NYU and the New School. (May 2018)

A Thomas Cole for All Ages

Every era gets its own Thomas Cole, the British-born, nineteenth-century artist who ushered in a new age of American landscape painting—curators ignore the contradictions and issues in his work in favor of pure valorization.

May 13, 2018