Puzzle No. 3510 Puzzle No. 3510
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 and 14D At the 11th hour, securing bishop left in the custody of libertine singer-actor (6,10) 4 Excerpt from “Ess…
Sep 19, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
How Should We Remember the Art of Emil Nolde? How Should We Remember the Art of Emil Nolde?
A recent show in Berlin grapples with the legacy of a prominent German modernist who was a supporter of Nazism but whose art was derided by Nazis.
Sep 19, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
A Haitian Music Oral History That Bends Space and Time A Haitian Music Oral History That Bends Space and Time
Nathalie Joachim’s debut album, Fanm d’Ayiti, bridges vast expanses, bringing together the sounds of Haitian folk music, Western classical music, electronic, and hints of pop.
Sep 18, 2019 / David Hajdu
The Business of Being Taylor Swift The Business of Being Taylor Swift
Her latest album, Lover, has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions.
Sep 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Olivia Horn
How to Send a Message of Solidarity to People in Migrant Detention How to Send a Message of Solidarity to People in Migrant Detention
A new project called Flowers on the Inside allows people to send postcards featuring art from undocumented immigrants to detained migrants.
Sep 17, 2019 / Tina Vasquez
The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836) The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)
Letters and pamphlets are good. Petitions, better: Ye who have pens, prepare to use them now. We’re going to need all of you to go house to house to collect signatures. We’ve been…
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range
The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838) The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)
Somebody had to be the first to amass the proof from slaveholders’ mouths: twenty thousand newspapers from the South, the unthinking testimony parsed, scissored carefully into stri…
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range
The Making of Moroccan Funk The Making of Moroccan Funk
Led by the Casablanca polymath Abdelakabir Faradjallah, the band Attarazat Addahabia defined the sound of the city.
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
Puzzle No. 3509 Puzzle No. 3509
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Parts of article used and reused in parallel (6,6) 9 Senior Department of Justice figure in the Obama administrati…
Sep 12, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Bless This Mess Bless This Mess
Domestic disruptions in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and other recent films.
Sep 11, 2019 / Stuart Klawans