Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry
Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.
Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot
Are Museums in Crisis? Are Museums in Crisis?
As institutions around the world deal with various challenges—politically and economically—it is worth asking if museums have lost their authority.
Mar 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Falling Man The Falling Man
The story is missing, so I fill it in— it’s what a thinking person does to cope. Without the details, only Death can win. And so, the panic invariably set in, the fires on lower fl…
Mar 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / C. Dale Young
What Is to Be Done What Is to Be Done
When asked Why here? Mao said We didn’t pick it Here is a slab of If Here is a set of appropriate roles; armed in cinema Armed against No one was here I see you, us. Someday Our a…
Mar 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Zaina Alsous
The Messy Humanity of Leo Bersani (April 16, 1931–February 20, 2022) The Messy Humanity of Leo Bersani (April 16, 1931–February 20, 2022)
Two friends and colleagues on the late scholar, whose analyses of gay identity during the height of the AIDS crisis still loom large over sexuality studies.
Mar 7, 2022 / Zahid R. Chaudhary and Anne Anlin Cheng
The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv
Ukrainian publisher Anetta Antonenko has her books, her cats, her language—and her gun.
Feb 28, 2022 / Benjamin Moser
The Infinite Possibilities of “Macbeth” The Infinite Possibilities of “Macbeth”
Sparse and beautiful, Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation focuses on why we continue to return to this story of power and downfall.
Feb 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
See the Tail That Wags the Dog See the Tail That Wags the Dog
See the tail that wags the dog. Language is speaking the man. Look, the shovel is making a hole in the grave digger! Brushes paint artists into the walls! The hip is wagging the da…
Feb 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ludmila Khersonsky
Hannah Is Never Only Hannah Hannah Is Never Only Hannah
Please get that I am the trying breeze going through the really great great great world yes yes. Please get that I am the drowning helpful freedom of the storm yes yes. Please get…
Feb 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Emerson
Mitski’s Ghost Stories Mitski’s Ghost Stories
The singer-songwriter’s new album, Laurel Hell, explores the terror of fame.
Feb 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Samantha Schuyler