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Before All of This

Before All of This Before All of This

And as usual, early summer seems already to hold, inside it, the split fruit of late fall, those afternoons we’ll soon enough lie down in, their diminished colors, the part no one…

Nov 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

74,000 Acres of Forest Burning

74,000 Acres of Forest Burning 74,000 Acres of Forest Burning

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Nov 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Bass

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s ambitious new novel Red Pill plumbs the depth of right-wing and liberal ideas as it tracks one man’s descent into a web-induced mania. 

Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano

Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life

Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life

The Up series was meant to investigate inequities of British class. It also ended up telling a different story as well.

Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Susan Pedersen

The Great Pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin

Scary orange thing.

Oct 31, 2020 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández, Felix Sockwell, and Edel Rodriguez

Abbie Hoffman

Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’

We don’t need the president to get any more ideas in his addled mind about how to punish American cities and activists.

Oct 30, 2020 / Jon Wiener

Making Room for the Real

Making Room for the Real Making Room for the Real

A dispatch from this year’s mostly virtual New York Film Festival. 

Oct 30, 2020 / Stuart Klawans

Catasterism

Catasterism Catasterism

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.–—Lord Tennyson Winter is my nightlong field. Cruel, y…

Oct 30, 2020 / Poems / Threa Almontaser

Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston

Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston

We should be able to distinguish racist imagery from imagery depicting racists.

Oct 30, 2020 / Barry Schwabsky

Get Out

Get Out Get Out

The time has come to take him down.

Oct 29, 2020 / OppArt / Juana Alicia

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