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Pop culture
Pop culture news and analysis from The Nation
December 2, 2019
Mixing sacred imagery and snatches of memoir, the British artist’s new album is Magdalene a beautiful and eerie statement.
November 8, 2019
How crony capitalism and crippling austerity turned democracy into a dirty word.
October 11, 2019
Hollywood is uneasy with superheroes, yet the genre is a mirror for troubled times.
September 17, 2019
Led by the Casablanca polymath Abdelakabir Faradjallah, the band Attarazat Addahabia defined the sound of the city.
September 10, 2019
Her new album channels the spirit of Puerto Rico’s activists.
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August 27, 2019
Two distinct artists defined the sound of this summer.
August 22, 2019
What began as a solo folk act has swelled into a collaborative and ecstatic mix of rock, pop, gospel, and more.
July 26, 2019
Atheist, anarchist, cofounder of the Yippies, and countercultural provocateur, Paul leaves The Realist as his greatest legacy.
June 4, 2019
Wrapped into its new album U.F.O.F. ’s delicate folds are fragility and resilience, love and trauma, nature and ether, enclosure and space, light and dark.
January 29, 2019
When movies, TV shows, and video games deride science, facts, and reason, the harm to our political culture can be profound.
