Playground, Night Washing Over Playground, Night Washing Over
A far sunset when we enter isn’t done yet when some things get as off centre as the swing set’s swaying censer. Here the landlocked grainy colour sandbox goes gray, grows a duller…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brian Wickers
Ceylon Ceylon
—the word’s on the tip of your tongue (or, as you say it, tong), as we take tea. Waiting for you to speak, I sip mine: Tetley’s tastes of nothing, but I suppose it’s good to know t…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Vidyan Ravinthiran
Why We Have No Future Why We Have No Future
I want to be free To get up in the morning, pee And not come back to bed. We have no future together, he said Drawing a line in the sand Of my chest, my nipples Rival castles divid…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / D.A. Powell
The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’ The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’
Although the long sweep of American economic history is the ostensible subject of Capitalism in America, it tell us more about Alan Greenspan than about the history of capitalism.
Dec 12, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia
The second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show is stuck in its comfort zone.
Dec 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Marshall
If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless, If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless,
I could gather up old thoughts the way a mind distant in love brings about a gathering of stars. I don’t want people thinking I don’t care about the future. Plenty of people are wr…
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Laura Eve Engel
In America’s Panopticon In America’s Panopticon
Sarah Igo’s The Known Citizen examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds
His new novel, A Terrible Country, offers a heartbreakingly intimate glimpse into contemporary Russian life.
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gregory Afinogenov
Earl Sweatshirt’s Relentless Introspection Earl Sweatshirt’s Relentless Introspection
On Some Rap Songs, Earl excavates hard truths about himself and his heritage, and the results are dazzling and gut-wrenching.
Nov 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
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