Arts and Entertainment

‘High Fidelity’ Is a Broken Record

‘High Fidelity’ Is a Broken Record ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Broken Record

While the TV reboot breaks out of some of the original’s male-centered whiteness, it refuses to take risks that would make it more memorable. 

Feb 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

The Nightmare Touches Its Forehead to My Lips

The Nightmare Touches Its Forehead to My Lips The Nightmare Touches Its Forehead to My Lips

The sky feels like a k-pin doused with some other shit that’ll kill you— infectious harp.   ::   The space between language— shard of porcelain from the dictator’s hous…

Feb 18, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Andrés Cerpa

A Smiling Understanding

A Smiling Understanding A Smiling Understanding

There is an understanding, a smiling understanding, between orchards and orchestras. Jazz and Bach are fertilizers, something extra. Trees are much older than music and poetry, wer…

Feb 18, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Moss

Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now

Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now

The Australian band’s contemplative new album finds calm in its stadium rock ambitions.

Feb 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore

Puzzle No. 3525

Puzzle No. 3525 Puzzle No. 3525

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Musical chairs, ultimately, amid sprinkles at mid-month (May, for instance) (4,4,5)  9 Llama’s cousin kept by Nicar…

Feb 13, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

070 Shake’s Master Plan

070 Shake’s Master Plan 070 Shake’s Master Plan

The New Jersey rapper’s debut album is a showcase for a one-of-a-kind voice.

Feb 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Family Portrait With Enchiladas and a Movie

Family Portrait With Enchiladas and a Movie Family Portrait With Enchiladas and a Movie

Picture this: my heart as thick orange as manteca as we turn on Twister for what has to be the sixteenth time since 1996,   and my parents are tired of it now, but I really be…

Feb 11, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Analicia Sotelo

A Driftless Son

A Driftless Son A Driftless Son

It came to me to sell the family farm, shift its failures to a man who planned   to occupy the place for recreation, to hunt the deer that spook and shadow in the pines,  …

Feb 11, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Mark Wunderlich

Bong Joon-ho holding two Oscars.

The ‘Parasite’ Oscar Sweep Is a Triumph for South Korean Culture The ‘Parasite’ Oscar Sweep Is a Triumph for South Korean Culture

Bong Joon-ho’s film about the gap between rich and poor challenges English-language dominance in the industry.

Feb 10, 2020 / Tim Shorrock

Between the Old World and the New

Between the Old World and the New Between the Old World and the New

On Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole and Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams.

Feb 7, 2020 / Stuart Klawans

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