Culture

Street Art in Rome

Street Art in Rome Street Art in Rome

Drawn to peace.

Jan 9, 2024 / OppArt / Kocore and About Ponny

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger speak during the Times’ annual DealBook summit, on November 29, 2023 in New York City.

Do as I Say, Not as I Do Do as I Say, Not as I Do

The comforting lessons in good will and friendship Apple, Netflix, and Disney flaunt are benign distractions that deflect attention from their two-fisted business behavior.

Jan 8, 2024 / Peter Biskind

Extracting heroin from poppies on April 10, 1978, in Los Angeles, Calif.

A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin

Michael Clune’s White Out is among the most intense and intellectually thrilling books on opiate addiction.

Jan 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Kolitz

“Night,” 1897.

Susan Taubes’s Uncanny Chronicles of Domestic Hell Susan Taubes’s Uncanny Chronicles of Domestic Hell

Her previously unreleased fiction—a novella and short stories—in Lament for Julia peek into the banal and nightmarish travails of married life.

Jan 4, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Chow

Mickey Mouse Loses It!

Mickey Mouse Loses It! Mickey Mouse Loses It!

Disney’s famed character out of ©.

Jan 3, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

A child eats amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace

Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.

Jan 3, 2024 / Ibtisam Barakat

Adam Driver in “Ferrari.”

Michael Mann’s Need for Speed Michael Mann’s Need for Speed

The director’s biopic of Enzo Ferrari is a perfect encapsulation of his primary aesthetic interest: the death drive and male melancholy.

Jan 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / James Duesterberg

Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Jannie Hampton, Jayah Henry in “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.”

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”: A Masterpiece of American Southern Filmmaking “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”: A Masterpiece of American Southern Filmmaking

Raven Jackson’s remarkable debut is a poetic look into Black family life in the South.

Jan 2, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kelli Weston

Downtown Jakarta, 2006.

Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Portrait of Gay Indonesia Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Portrait of Gay Indonesia

In, Happy Stories, Mostly, a collection of short stories, the complexities of queer life in the Southeast Asian country come into focus.

Dec 28, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Bryony Lau

Nation Poetry

nous nous baignons — variations nous nous baignons — variations

an experimental translation of Marie-Andrée Gill 

Dec 28, 2023 / Poems / Kristen Renee Miller

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