Little Pharma on Rooms Little Pharma on Rooms
She thinks in a smaller hospital She would remember each face With some embarrassment She can remember all the rooms 1421 From whose eaves pigeons tumble Its permanent winter of sh…
Jul 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Laura Kolbe
For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’ For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’
Rocks are notched with sea limpets, and the pockets limpets leave once they’ve sealed into the rock and know themselves most inside it, shell swelling, softening the stone. You can…
Jul 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nomi Stone
The Tangle of Desire and Class in ‘Normal People’ The Tangle of Desire and Class in ‘Normal People’
The television adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel depicts how people can fall in love in a world structured by power.
Jul 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing
Rosemary Mayer’s journal from 1971 illuminates not just her work but also how a creative person makes sense of a life.
Jul 23, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Thea Ballard
Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’ Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’
Flitting between the intimate and the impersonal, the poet’s photographic project Memory is a hallmark of American conceptualism.
Jul 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tausif Noor
The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens
Gamers with the Army, Navy, and Air Force are spending hours on Twitch with children as young as 13.
Jul 15, 2020 / Jordan Uhl
John Early Is the Left’s Funniest Comedian John Early Is the Left’s Funniest Comedian
We talked to Early about his socialist heroes, the latest season of HBO’s Search Party, and how comedy is facing the politics of the moment.
Jul 15, 2020 / Q&A / Rima Parikh
Saviors Saviors
Spiders under the furniture cut loose the papery drained bodies as simple testaments of just how valuable they have been how surrounded we were…
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Allan Peterson
How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel
The astronaut told us he didn’t look out the window for eight and a half minutes as the rocket launched him beyond our atmosphere. Terrifying things happened— ground vanished, boos…
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Catherine Pierce
On the Record’s Act of Witness On the Record’s Act of Witness
Telling the stories of three women who accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault, the documentary is a powerful case study in how institutions have failed Black women.
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse