The Hallucinatory Violence of Quentin Tarantino’s Alternate Histories The Hallucinatory Violence of Quentin Tarantino’s Alternate Histories
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood looks back at the summer of ’69 and brings the Manson family murders into the present.
Aug 2, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
This Indie Band Has Beyoncé’s Seal of Approval This Indie Band Has Beyoncé’s Seal of Approval
Folk rock group Florist’s poetic new LP, Emily Alone, is quietly showstopping.
Jul 31, 2019 / Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The Doldrums of Summer Moviegoing The Doldrums of Summer Moviegoing
A dispatch from our film critic on this season’s cinematic highs and lows.
Jul 29, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3505 Puzzle No. 3505
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Noticed a tool melting (4) 4 Put in other words: political center managed group of candidates (9) 10 Our dean mang…
Jul 25, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises
The show claims to explore questions of sincerity amid a world of fakes, but the shallow results end up reinforcing long-held problems about the museum as an institution.
Jul 22, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
Caroline Shaw and the Shock of the New Caroline Shaw and the Shock of the New
The Pulitzer Prize–winning composer turns the history of the string quartet upside down, turning a once fusty form into something adventurous.
Jul 18, 2019 / David Hajdu
Half a Century Before Colin Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson Said, ‘I Cannot Stand and Sing the Anthem.’ Half a Century Before Colin Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson Said, ‘I Cannot Stand and Sing the Anthem.’
A segregationist senator tried to use Robinson to destroy Paul Robeson. Instead, Robinson called out racism.
Jul 18, 2019 / Peter Dreier
Solvitur Ambulando Solvitur Ambulando
After the impossibility of the movement of any object through time was raised in light of the fact that, in time’s smallest unit, no motion can take place (which is to say, that an…
Jul 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Donnelly
Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny? Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?
The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.
Jul 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
On Not Looking Away On Not Looking Away
All perpetrators ask is that we remain bystanders. But to combat complicity, we must confront tragedy.
Jul 16, 2019 / Arran Skinner