Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
We don’t need the president to get any more ideas in his addled mind about how to punish American cities and activists.
Oct 30, 2020 / Jon Wiener
Catasterism Catasterism
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.–—Lord Tennyson Winter is my nightlong field. Cruel, y…
Oct 30, 2020 / Poems / Threa Almontaser
Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston
We should be able to distinguish racist imagery from imagery depicting racists.
Oct 30, 2020 / Barry Schwabsky
A Soundscape of Pure Empathy A Soundscape of Pure Empathy
Kelly Lee Owens’s quietly complex electronic music is defined by its spirit of care.
Oct 27, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts ‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts
How the Hulu show reinvents the coming-of-age story.
Oct 26, 2020 / Quinn Moreland
What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation
Its fall once represented the enduring spirit of American freedom. A new documentary shows how that myth is being undone.
Oct 22, 2020 / Sophia Steinert-Evoy
The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity
Why former telethon participants are protesting the return of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s most famous fundraising effort.
Oct 22, 2020 / Sara Luterman
Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7
The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.
Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums
After untold exploitation and erasure, Native artwork is being undermined by fraud.
Oct 20, 2020 / Chris O’Connell, Savannah Maher, and The Texas Observer
Synthesizing Sound and Self Synthesizing Sound and Self
The vexed legacy of electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos.
Oct 15, 2020 / Sasha Geffen