Rosalía Is Flamenco’s Rule-Defying Renegade Rosalía Is Flamenco’s Rule-Defying Renegade
The Catalan singer writes the next chapter in flamenco’s history on her radical new album, El Mal Querer.
Nov 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
The Long, Entwined History of America First and the American Dream The Long, Entwined History of America First and the American Dream
A new history shows that these expressions were originally used in ways that are significantly different from our current understanding of them.
Nov 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kevin M. Kruse
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War
A new biography of Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser attempts to place him among the pantheon of master foreign-policy strategists, but was he?
Nov 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
How Nell Painter Found Her Process How Nell Painter Found Her Process
Old in Art School recounts the historian’s journey from Sunday painter to professional artist.
Nov 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
HBO’s Hauntingly Faithful Adaptation of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ HBO’s Hauntingly Faithful Adaptation of ‘My Brilliant Friend’
The TV series is just as unflinching and intimate as Elena Ferrante’s novel.
Nov 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Marshall
The Anarchic Fun of Vince Staples The Anarchic Fun of Vince Staples
On the rapper’s new album, FM!, he relishes any opportunity to inject gravity and grim contradiction into pure party jams.
Nov 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
You Need to Know About boygenius You Need to Know About boygenius
A new indie rock supergroup sums up the best of the genre's recent women-led wave.
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Olivia Horn
I Make a Toothpick Diadem & Crown Myself Token I Make a Toothpick Diadem & Crown Myself Token
Pink light sears the marbled bar & the straw in my drink is pastel. On wood-paneled walls, American Traditional paintings of my goddesses. Kati texts me : all this gaslighting…
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Raena Shirali
Self-Portrait as a Shadow Self-Portrait as a Shadow
for V. Lamar Word is I wasn’t born so much as skimmed off another living thing by a source of light. Let’s just say that you are light-skinned and the back of my mom’s hand is a co…
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Cortney Lamar Charleston
When the World Tried to Outlaw War When the World Tried to Outlaw War
What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Wertheim