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
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
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
On Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole and Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams.
Feb 7, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3524 Puzzle No. 3524
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Mystery, primarily to a scoundrel: “Am I a nut?” (9) 6 Tailless dog seen east of Georgia range (5) 9 …
Feb 6, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Expect the Unexpected: On the Music of Hildur Guðnadóttir Expect the Unexpected: On the Music of Hildur Guðnadóttir
Her scores for HBO’s Chernobyl and Todd Phillips’s Joker bring soundtracks into the realm of high art.
Feb 5, 2020 / David Hajdu
Kaytranada Captures an Entire Party’s Worth of Sound on ‘Bubba’ Kaytranada Captures an Entire Party’s Worth of Sound on ‘Bubba’
The electronic producer’s new album feels like the full flowering of a major talent.
Feb 4, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Sanders’s Iowa Campaign Has Killer Ground Game Sanders’s Iowa Campaign Has Killer Ground Game
Bands, filmmakers, and members of Congress have drawn the crowds while the candidate was stuck in Washington for the impeachment trial.
Feb 1, 2020 / John Nichols
Puzzle No. 3523 Puzzle No. 3523
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 6 Cure something you’d want to beat with a club (7) 7 Alloy could be auctioned off, only more so? (6) 9 Bush…
Jan 30, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
In the Beginning, Run In the Beginning, Run
Ninety days in the dark on your back in chains and you don’t know where you’re going. I kept picturing the grin of the salesman as the sai…
Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Harmony Holiday