Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home
Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi gets reimagined as the murderous fantasy of an angsty teenage boy.
Aug 13, 2015 / Alisa Solomon
Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet
Could we be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry?
Aug 13, 2015 / Michael T. Klare
How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych was the driving force behind new laws that restrict free speech and regulate how history is written.
Aug 13, 2015 / Jared McBride
Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’? Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’?
Not according to a new ruling against students at the New School.
Aug 13, 2015 / Michelle Chen
August 13, 1899: Alfred Hitchcock is Born August 13, 1899: Alfred Hitchcock is Born
“Even his means are ends.”
Aug 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Puzzle No. 3371 Puzzle No. 3371
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Conflict resolution technique takes time and reflection (10) 6 An elderly relative’s weight (4) 10 Lindbergh and G…
Aug 13, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction
The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
Why Maria Ochoa Has Crossed the Desert 100 Times Why Maria Ochoa Has Crossed the Desert 100 Times
An interview with the cofounder of Tucson Samaritans.
Aug 13, 2015 / Sasha Abramsky
Bicyclist Bicyclist
He wobbles on his bicycle, steadies, threads an s through traffic, clank of gears, a chain around his person, a person around its breath.
Aug 13, 2015 / Poems / Patrick Morrissey
Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale
Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky