Arts and Entertainment

Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns

Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns

The Detroit rapper’s new album offers a panorama of gun culture that brims with disarming nuance and clarity.

Apr 25, 2019 / Stephen Kearse

Puzzle No. 3498

Puzzle No. 3498 Puzzle No. 3498

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Eggs without salt for one possibly destined to be a queen (4)  3 Prince sat uneasily with hankering to hold gun (10…

Apr 25, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything

Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything

Damon Krukowski’s new book is critique of capitalism disguised as a meditation on playback technology. 

Apr 24, 2019 / Q&A / Sasha Geffen

Dear Melissa—

Dear Melissa— Dear Melissa—

On each body is carried the shape of its absence—the uncontrollable morning— a hammock over-turned by the wind—bird- shit—which implies beauty but is not beautiful in and of itself…

Apr 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / TC Tolbert

Love Prodigal

Love Prodigal Love Prodigal

I make love when I am bored. That’s how I know I’m an intelligent animal. It’s easy to tremble—a pistil brushed with a bumblebee’s fur— and who doesn’t want to be golden, like pear…

Apr 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Traci Brimhall

Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable

Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable

The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, is all about excess, anarchy, and baby boomers.

Apr 22, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz

The Bare Ruined Choirs of Notre Dame

The Bare Ruined Choirs of Notre Dame The Bare Ruined Choirs of Notre Dame

This monument to medieval faith will surely be rebuilt—by the techno-mobilization of capitalist individualism.

Apr 22, 2019 / Richard Lingeman

Sansa Stark reflects

Back in Westeros Back in Westeros

Game of Thrones’ final season depicts a fractured world’s last shot at redemption.

Apr 19, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Puzzle No. 3497

Puzzle No. 3497 Puzzle No. 3497

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Antique bicycle in famous lane with distant object (5-8)  9 Old vessel swapping adjacent components with one gettin…

Apr 18, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Cathedral of Notre Dame going up in flames

The Burning of Notre Dame Is Not Just a Tragedy—It’s an Opportunity The Burning of Notre Dame Is Not Just a Tragedy—It’s an Opportunity

It’s an occasion to a consider a more expansive idea of what it means to be French.

Apr 17, 2019 / Daniel Judt

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