Jane Yong Kim

Over six prolific decades, the self-taught Italian artist explored the female body and its social context with curiosity and urgency.

“Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash,” by the Indonesian author of “Beauty Is a Wound,” is a surreal, poignant account of a teen attempting to become a man.

“Better Luck Tomorrow,” Justin Lin’s 2003 indie about a group of bad teenagers in suburbia, complicated the question of Asian American representation in Hollywood in ways that still resonate deeply today.

This magazine has always been a destination for great writers and for those who love literature. That’s why we’re making books a much bigger part of what we do.

The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai wrote, better than almost anyone, about the thin line between isolation and belonging.

In her too-short career, the painter Christina Ramberg studied the many contortions that being a woman can demand.