What Art Under Trump? What Art Under Trump?
In a time of crisis and panic, artists and writers can help remind us that we are more than just voters and statistics.
Jan 18, 2017 / Feature / Margaret Atwood
A Victory Lap for Run the Jewels A Victory Lap for Run the Jewels
With the Trump presidency on the horizon, Killer Mike and El-P do what’s become customary for them: They urge us to get up and fight.
Jan 17, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance
Then, as now, many in the political classes looked down on supposedly impractical efforts to change consciousness.
Jan 13, 2017 / Danny Goldberg
President Obama’s Last Confession President Obama’s Last Confession
Gasp!
Jan 10, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow
How Decades of Disappointment Won the Election for Donald Trump How Decades of Disappointment Won the Election for Donald Trump
Lost wars, globalization, and the resulting bitterness brought a vote against shattered expectations.
Jan 10, 2017 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Nat Hentoff, Freedom Fighter Nat Hentoff, Freedom Fighter
The legendary critic, who died recently at the age of 91, passionately defended freedom of expression in jazz, politics, and life.
Jan 9, 2017 / Richard Kreitner
It’s the World Committing Suicide Said One Mom It’s the World Committing Suicide Said One Mom
No it’s murder, said another. I think people don’t care because it’s only animals dying, said Miriam. a life spent making marks was what she had been doing she wondered if this…
Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Zucker
I Can Barely Stand To I Can Barely Stand To
today at the Louvre I took students to see Venus de Milo with her pert exquisite breasts & read them Emma Lazarus’ poem to grief-struck Heinrich Heine we talked ekphrastic thi…
Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Zucker
Puzzle No. 3419 Puzzle No. 3419
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Nut captures Long Island bird (7) 5 Like some architecture degrees involving a certain rental, mostly (7) 9 Prosp…
Jan 5, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Birth of an Imperial Nation Birth of an Imperial Nation
A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.
Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant