Ode to the Belt Ode to the Belt
it’s clear the future does not bode well for the living my man wont let me forget where leather comes from the engineered animal bent over in chemical grass the slit thing hanged &…
Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sam Sax
Puzzle No. 3464 Puzzle No. 3464
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Momentous heart? (5-10) 9 Essential energy reflected the sound of a cat and the sound of a bird (7) 10 Backslide a…
Apr 19, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Joan Jonas’s Fragments Joan Jonas’s Fragments
More than anything else, time itself is the material Jonas works with, manipulating it as a sculptor might mold clay.
Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us
Aside from relieving liberal stress, what can anti-Trump satire accomplish?
Apr 5, 2018 / Leslie Savan
Puzzle No. 3463 Puzzle No. 3463
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Objectively, I pester an Indian tribe: It supplies three letters for the wordplay in each remaining Across entry (9…
Apr 5, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Ubiquitous Medium The Ubiquitous Medium
Carissa Rodriguez’s work leads viewers to scrutinize our choices and values as they relate to video—to recording and being recorded.
Mar 30, 2018 / Larissa Pham
Flirtations With Anarchy Flirtations With Anarchy
Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.
Mar 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Young Fathers Find a New Sound Young Fathers Find a New Sound
The band’s sense of what would pass for fitting into the pop-music mainstream is draped in their own idiosyncrasies.
Mar 29, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Briana Younger
Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci
The filmmaker on his latest film The Death of Stalin, his own politics, and how satirists ought to respond to President Trump.
Mar 29, 2018 / Q&A / Joseph Hogan
Fable of the Firstborn Fable of the Firstborn
In the beginning, I was neither image nor identity. Time was a quickening; I was my own dark-watered well. There was no hankering there, just another native world and its wishes. W…
Mar 29, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Tarfia Faizullah