International Solidarity With Palestine International Solidarity With Palestine
Street mural, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.
Jul 17, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
Why Did “Furiosa” Flop? Why Did “Furiosa” Flop?
A web of interconnected reasons might explain why George Miller’s long-awaited new entry to his Mad Max series failed in the box office.
Jul 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole
The entertainment behemoth deleted 25 years of the groundbreaking network's content prior to its new merger with Skydance—and things are likely to get much worse.
Jul 9, 2024 / Ben Schwartz
The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai
The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.
Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church
More than a half century of the Poetry Project
Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones
LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography
A new career survey at the MoMA is a perfect illustration of the photographer's mission: to reframe how viewers see the working-class and low-income people whom she counts as kin....
Jul 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
Dear Ron Klain: We Need To Talk About Joe Dear Ron Klain: We Need To Talk About Joe
To preserve President Biden’s legacy, the party has to find another candidate
Jul 1, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Taylor Swift, Poet Taylor Swift, Poet
Country singer, globetrotting pop star, and now melancholic poet—Taylor Swift has offered her listeners almost everything.
Jul 1, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
Time, Space, and Annie Baker Time, Space, and Annie Baker
The playwright's remarkable debut film, Janet Planet, immerses the viewer in the sounds and sorrow of a middle-schooler's endless summer.
Jun 24, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Nora Caplan-Bricker
How the Academy Flubbed Its Moguls Memorial How the Academy Flubbed Its Moguls Memorial
The Academy's film museum, seeking to placate critics who decried its earlier omission of Jewish moguls, rushes to fix its clumsy handling of a sensitive subject.
Jun 21, 2024 / Ben Schwartz