The Reality-Show President, Season One The Reality-Show President, Season One
Featuring meltdowns, tantrums, betrayals and racism. What happens next?
Jan 15, 2018 / Column / Laila Lalami
Puzzle No. 3453 Puzzle No. 3453
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Nine-dimensional fantasy? (7) 5 In reference to a travel requirement, credit card has no backing (3-1-3) 9 Sticky…
Jan 11, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Lefty Critique of #TimesUp Is Tired and Self-Defeating The Lefty Critique of #TimesUp Is Tired and Self-Defeating
This was an action organized by and for women of color activists that reached millions. What’s wrong with that?
Jan 9, 2018 / Rinku Sen
Between What Is and What Could Be Between What Is and What Could Be
A bold exhibit delivers the message that there can be much power in the decision, and autonomy in the will, to be an abstract artist in America.
Jan 8, 2018 / Erica Rawles
It’s a Daisy It’s a Daisy
Bats twin the sky drowsy from billowing home to watch Night Court. I, Nikki, as a contemporary woman: is bound to ask who’s spiraling in the faucet. If you keep no-lye relaxers on…
Dec 28, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Nikki Wallschlaeger
Puzzle No. 3452 Puzzle No. 3452
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Ultimately, saddest tear to go viral (5) 4 Those who aren’t expert mostly gather to admit true failing (8) 9 “Loo…
Dec 28, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Marvel of Cécile McLorin Salvant The Marvel of Cécile McLorin Salvant
How wonderful, and strange, that a jazz singer can achieve such stardom nowadays.
Dec 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
In Turkey, Repression of the Kurdish Language Is Back, With No End in Sight In Turkey, Repression of the Kurdish Language Is Back, With No End in Sight
Since 2015, scores of Kurdish media organizations, associations, language schools, and cultural institutions have been shut down.
Dec 21, 2017 / Constanze Letsch
What Films to See Over the Holidays What Films to See Over the Holidays
The spectacle of Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, the anti-Trump propaganda of Steven Spielberg’s The Post, an inexplicable period melodrama by Paul Thomas Anderson, and more.
Dec 21, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Before Romare Bearden’s Collages Before Romare Bearden’s Collages
The painter’s little-known abstract period was not an end, but a method of discovery.
Dec 21, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky