The Life and Times of a Niche Rapper The Life and Times of a Niche Rapper
Vince Staples’s self-titled Netflix show is a probing look at celebrity culture, Hollywood, and the pitfalls of being only kind of famous.
Feb 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
What Happened to “The Washington Post” Under Marty Baron? What Happened to “The Washington Post” Under Marty Baron?
In a new book, the former editor tirelessly hymns how he and the newspaper protected their journalists and shored up the foundations of our crumbling republic. But was that the ca...
Feb 27, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
The Genius of Nuri Bilge Ceylan The Genius of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
About Dry Grasses is long, dense, elliptical—and brilliant.
Feb 26, 2024 / Books & the Arts / A. S. Hamrah
The Era of Nicki Minaj The Era of Nicki Minaj
How the queen of rap revolutionized American music.
Feb 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Sara Ahmed and the Joys of Killjoy Feminism Sara Ahmed and the Joys of Killjoy Feminism
To be a feminist killjoy means celebrating a different kind of joy, the joy that comes from doing critical damage to what damages so much of the world.
Feb 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Judith Butler
The Magic of Reading Bernard Malamud The Magic of Reading Bernard Malamud
His work, unlike that of Bellow or Roth, focused on the lives of often impoverished Jews in Brooklyn and the Bronx and bestowed on them a literary magic.
Feb 20, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
What Happened to the Democratic Majority? What Happened to the Democratic Majority?
Today the march of class dealignment feels like an inexorable fact of American political life. But is it?
Feb 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Karp
The Unanswered Questions of “True Detective” The Unanswered Questions of “True Detective”
Like a Raymond Chandler detective story, Night Country ultimately wants to turn its audience’s attention away from the mysteries of the dead toward those of the living.
Feb 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
The Bad Politics of Good Taste The Bad Politics of Good Taste
Nathalie Olah’s exploration of the ethics of tastefulness dissects the class-bounded nature of most social and cultural mores.
Feb 15, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Kelly