Jane Yong Kim

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

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.

“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.

“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.

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

The artist’s Guggenheim show uses olfactory experiments to overturn assumptions about gender, race, and hygiene.