Puzzle No. 3520 Puzzle No. 3520
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.1 ACROSS2 1 Coordinate pretty nice permutation (1-9)3 6 Crow in second-rate newspaper (4)4 10 Mythical creature’s simple gar…
Jan 9, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Madam Secretary, RIP Madam Secretary, RIP
Because in the Age of Trump, even centrists have dreams.
Jan 2, 2020 / Danny Goldberg
10 of 2019’s Best Albums 10 of 2019’s Best Albums
The hybrid work of Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Fire in My Mouth, FKA twigs’s Magdalene, and Kris Davis’s Diatom Ribbons all showcase the experimental spirit of this year’s most exc...
Dec 30, 2019 / David Hajdu
Book of Dolls 45 Book of Dolls 45
God’s carpenters are busy putting nails in the idea of heaven. Make no mistake. It’s hell. If you see my hand shake, do not worry. It is just the motion that persists, with or with…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Bond
Grid Grid
All energy, to the engineer, or the soul, is the same. Today’s illumination might have come, way back, from either love or pain— no whiff, when the light flicked on,…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / James Richardson
The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso
Understanding Picasso’s art, Gilot’s memoir shows, is inseparable from understanding both his genius and monstrousness.
Dec 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
The New MoMA Is a Work In Progress The New MoMA Is a Work In Progress
Can the newly reopened museum really achieve its aim of reframing the global history of 20th century art?
Dec 23, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3519 Puzzle No. 3519
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Weirdly precise sets of instructions (7) 5 Fall with hesitation into tuna salad (6) 8 Cut and burn to get hot (5)…
Dec 19, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Legend of ‘Queen & Slim’ The Legend of ‘Queen & Slim’
Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas’s mythmaking, the Safide Brothers’s grotesque romp through New York, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and more December movies.
Dec 19, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
The 2010s Radicalized Video Games—and the People Who Make Them The 2010s Radicalized Video Games—and the People Who Make Them
As an increasing number of games began to critique 21st century capitalism, their designers in the US battled for unionization.
Dec 19, 2019 / Lewis Gordon