It Takes a Village to Raise a Gangster It Takes a Village to Raise a Gangster
Are the greatest movies the product of the personal vision of their directors, auteurs who put their personal stamp on every frame? Or is filmmaking so inherently collaborative tha…
Dec 30, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Don the Con Don the Con
Billboard location: 1022 NW Grand Ave, Phoenix, Arizona 85007. December 2020.
Dec 30, 2020 / OppArt / Karen Fiorito
Out of the Ether Out of the Ether
On Mank, Let Them All Talk, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Minari, and more films from the end of 2020.
Dec 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Open Mike Eagle’s Songs of Redemption Open Mike Eagle’s Songs of Redemption
His new album—Anime, Trauma and Divorce—uses rap as a vehicle for self-examination and restoration.
Dec 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic? What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic?
A recent history of the pandemic illuminates not just parallels with our moment but how a public health crisis can become a political one as well.
Dec 29, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
Random Assignment Random Assignment
It seems to want to rain but can’t. It fades to pink, an argument. Relinquish the dream. You can’t ever get what you want, You can’t please any of the people Any of the time. Time…
Dec 29, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Elisa Gabbert
2020 2020
We’ve had a year, you must admit, Whose misery would just not quit. At last, we offer this obit: We’re glad to see the back of it.
Dec 29, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Apples Apples
The townspeople paste wax apples on the trees, glow shyly out their windows as the Dictator struts past the monument of his father strutting past nothing at all. Yesterday, the Dic…
Dec 29, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Claire Schwartz