Yeats’ Stance Yeats’ Stance
When I was about twenty I went by myself up into the towerthe holy place and never questioned it, but felt I could never be of it. You could feel it in the air this power like bein…
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine
My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself
We are trapped in traffic beneath the overpass, and the man in his story trembles on the edge of an overpass eight hundred miles west of here. Here, I have not tried to die for som…
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Eugenia Leigh
Poison Soup Poison Soup
America is left with a taste of fascism.
Jan 22, 2021 / OppArt / J.T. Williamson
Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline
The artist's first solo show, is a reminder that pleasure is inseparable from the joint projects of abolition and freedom.
Jan 21, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Tal Milovina
When the Painting Has Really Begun When the Painting Has Really Begun
On the mid-career work of Cecily Brown and Inka Essenhigh.
Jan 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A ‘Daily Show’ Cocreator on Karens, Crickets, and Comedy After Trump A ‘Daily Show’ Cocreator on Karens, Crickets, and Comedy After Trump
Lizz Winstead says, “If you can still laugh, you haven’t lost your capacity for hope.”
Jan 13, 2021 / Q&A / Rima Parikh
A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious
Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album is not unlike a radio broadcast from another reality.
Jan 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Life Preserver Life Preserver
It’s not pointless to love, finally. Just like training snakes, it calls for a refined technique and losing our shame of performing in front of the world in loincloths. And nerves…
Jan 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Javier Velaza
In the Epoch of Bronze In the Epoch of Bronze
We make the time pass. See, the devices laid out on the long tables, such ingenuity. This is the wave offering, this the heave offering. Waves of earth passing over you, into histo…
Jan 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / G.C. Waldrep
The Legend of MF DOOM The Legend of MF DOOM
On the legacy of a rap music auteur.
Jan 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse