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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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