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How Latin Got Woke How Latin Got Woke

Latin has long been the domain of dead white men. Today, a new cadre of scholars is trying to take it back.

Oct 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Lisa De Bode

Extinction

Extinction Extinction

When you are gone they will read your footprints, if they still read, as they might a poem about love— wandering in circles, here and there obscured, washed out in places by weathe…

Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Baker

Puzzle No. 3479

Puzzle No. 3479 Puzzle No. 3479

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Poet with nothing to indicate one agricultural staple and another (4,7)  7 Engineer posted about ultimate component…

Oct 11, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Magic of Helen DeWitt

The Magic of Helen DeWitt The Magic of Helen DeWitt

In the world of Some Trick, the best words are so acute they lacerate.

Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld

SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations

SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations

SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.

Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen

German punks

Anarchy in the GDR Anarchy in the GDR

A Q&A with Tim Mohr.

Oct 8, 2018 / Q&A / William Ralston

Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz

Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz

Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.

Oct 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu

Love Is Greater

Love Is Greater Love Is Greater

Graffiti seen in Amman, Jordan.

Oct 5, 2018 / OppArt / Anonymous

Puzzle No. 3478

Puzzle No. 3478 Puzzle No. 3478

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Composer taking and retaking ingredients of Advil? Not! (7,7) 10 What remains after a fire: a tree (3) 11 Herb’s te…

Oct 4, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Puzzle No. 3477

Puzzle No. 3477 Puzzle No. 3477

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1  Someone who brought Oscar home protects distressed Grouch with prayer (10)  6 Cautious women, we hear, concea…

Sep 27, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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