Books & the Arts

A Lower Register Sweetness

A Lower Register Sweetness A Lower Register Sweetness

What a privileged person I am to be relieved to no end and to have you back putting me in my place. Thank you for coming along! Thank you for ordering me! We’re ending a crucial fe…

Apr 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Josh Kalscheur

What’s the Deal With Grimes?

What’s the Deal With Grimes? What’s the Deal With Grimes?

Her climate change pop album Miss Anthropocene is riven with contradictions. 

Apr 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism

Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism

For the playwright and activist, neither liberal reform nor countercultural art were enough. The very foundations of American democracy needed to be transformed. 

Apr 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

The Liberation of Fiona Apple

The Liberation of Fiona Apple The Liberation of Fiona Apple

Her first album in eight years, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, is exquisite.

Apr 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rumaan Alam

Echo: From the Mountains

Echo: From the Mountains Echo: From the Mountains

Unicorns brought the news of human reason to the border So we gassed them. It was unlike the echo of guitars in a stone Cathedral or midnight’s crow landing snow in a field of whea…

Apr 7, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Roger Reeves

Silicon Valley’s Workplace Problem

Silicon Valley’s Workplace Problem Silicon Valley’s Workplace Problem

Tech start ups have long thrived on an exceptional view of themselves. But far from being the exception, their companies tend to embody much of what is wrong with our economy. ...

Apr 7, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Clio Chang

How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

Faced with the shattering 2008 crisis, Obama and his key advisers largely sought to restore the wobbly pre-crisis status quo.

Apr 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

Lyric

Lyric Lyric

Every terror is an angle through which waiting for the universal proves vain is the new fruitful you said. I said how long must lyric prevent us from saying what needs no meaning.

Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Zohar Atkins

love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf)

love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf) love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf)

you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf at the holiday dinner I sit between you my mother, her husband, reproduction everywhere and wonder why we pass or do we pass? for…

Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Young

Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Imagination

Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Imagination Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Imagination

What can we learn from the novelist’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale?

Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Katherine Hill

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