Arts and Entertainment

A Press Corps Full of Aunt Lydias

A Press Corps Full of Aunt Lydias A Press Corps Full of Aunt Lydias

Why are so many journalists defending Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

Apr 30, 2018 / Katha Pollitt

How Much ‘Roseanne’ Has Changed

How Much ‘Roseanne’ Has Changed How Much ‘Roseanne’ Has Changed

The show’s reboot has turned out to be much safer than the original.

Apr 30, 2018 / Judy Berman

The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts

The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts

I don’t know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had.

Apr 27, 2018 / Richard Kim

Puzzle No. 3465

Puzzle No. 3465 Puzzle No. 3465

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1  Provide food and support for insect (11)  7 Partner’s half of counterrevolution (5)  8 Where celebrities are…

Apr 26, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin 

Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin  Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin 

In Berlin Alexanderplatz, we are plunged into a cauldron of alienation, violence, and social breakdown that would deliver all of Germany into the hands of the Nazis. 

Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch

The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne

The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne

Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.

Apr 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen

Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection

Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection

Our charge as the jury was pretty much the same as my job as a critic: to listen carefully, with open ears and an equally open mind.

Apr 23, 2018 / David Hajdu

Drifting With the Current

Drifting With the Current Drifting With the Current

In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.

Apr 23, 2018 / Stuart Klawans

80 Days That Changed America

80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.

Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh

Waste My Life

Waste My Life Waste My Life

sleep, boredom, gossip, cruelty imaginary feuds and small resentments various, complex plans that amount to nothing at some point, every poet has to admit art is just a distraction…

Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Hera Lindsay Bird

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