Country Music Is Also Mexican Music Country Music Is Also Mexican Music
The Department of Homeland Security recruits agents at country festivals, but the musical genre knows no borders.
Jan 3, 2019 / Ludwig Hurtado
How Curators Are Finding the Climate in Art History How Curators Are Finding the Climate in Art History
The recent “Nature’s Nation” exhibition locates the hidden ecological and environmental roots of American art.
Dec 27, 2018 / Hannah Stamler
The Best Albums of 2018 The Best Albums of 2018
A striking number of this year’s most potent albums give voice to the disorientation, anxiety, and rage that infuse the human experience today.
Dec 21, 2018 / David Hajdu
‘Vice’ Captures All the Flaws and Excesses of Dick Cheney ‘Vice’ Captures All the Flaws and Excesses of Dick Cheney
More agitprop than biopic, Vice has enough depth to excite pity, fear, and a creepy, corporeal dread.
Dec 21, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
What the Parrot Said What the Parrot Said
My friend tells me his uncle the sailor died and left him a parrot that nobody else would take because the bird was so profane, and not long after, my friend threw a party at his h…
Dec 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Kirby
The Microscopes The Microscopes
Heavy and expensive, hard and black With bits of chrome, they looked Like baby cannons, the real children of war, and I Hated them for that, for what our teacher said They could do…
Dec 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jericho Brown
Puzzle No. 3486 Puzzle No. 3486
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Different tactic ultimately executed (7) 5 Holiday tradition—for example, turning instrument over (6) 8 Broken-do…
Dec 20, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Is Jazz’s Most Dynamic Quintet Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Is Jazz’s Most Dynamic Quintet
Their new album is an impeccably accomplished and deeply satisfying collection created largely through free improvisation.
Dec 19, 2018 / David Hajdu
‘Survivor’ and the Strange Thrill of Late Capitalism’s Reality TV ‘Survivor’ and the Strange Thrill of Late Capitalism’s Reality TV
The show fabricates a society to study how power is distributed within it, and in doing so, magnifies the demands that capitalism makes of ordinary people.
Dec 18, 2018 / Erin Schwartz
‘Roma’ for the People ‘Roma’ for the People
Alfonso Cuarón’s new film breathes new life into Mexico’s “haunted” presidential palace.
Dec 17, 2018 / Ellen Freeman