Rocky Without Reaganism Rocky Without Reaganism
Creed offers a surprisingly daring depiction of the Rocky universe as seen from the other side of the tracks.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Tell of Bodies Changed To Tell of Bodies Changed
Having desired little more than the arrival of the little more that arrives, outside our window a cypress of model proportions. Its patience seems to widen the nights we sleep in R…
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl
Voting Rights and the Second Redemption Voting Rights and the Second Redemption
Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot argues that democratic rights can never be taken for granted.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley December 3, 1964: Mass Arrests of Students at the University of California, Berkeley
“One conscientious reporter counted the marble steps as he followed a girl whose head jarred sickeningly as she was dragged down.”
Dec 3, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Border Characters Border Characters
The Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera talks about the first English translation of one of his novels, the Mexica afterlife, and Dante.
Dec 2, 2015 / Aaron Bady
Steve Coleman Works the Connections Steve Coleman Works the Connections
The composer and saxophonist’s hybrid jazz fuses the sounds of the world.
Dec 2, 2015 / David Hajdu
Flattened for a Price Flattened for a Price
In her new book The Cosmopolites, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the evolution of citizenship and the rise of a new form of statelessness.
Dec 2, 2015 / Fatima Bhutto
To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents To Global Leaders at COP21: Be Like the Ents
Once something threatens who you are and what you love, you have no choice but to take action.
Dec 1, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race
The debates over Wilson’s legacy ought to push us to initiate even broader conversations about the presence and power of the past in daily life.
Dec 1, 2015 / Martha A. Sandweiss
How ‘Creed’ Saves Rocky From Himself How ‘Creed’ Saves Rocky From Himself
Ryan Coogler revives an otherwise moribund franchise by showing the importance of black voices behind and in front of the camera.
Nov 30, 2015 / Dave Zirin