Inside the Wild Universe of Artist Jacolby Satterwhite

Combining video, performance, and music, his work tackles themes of sex, labor, public space, and the body.

Tiana Reid

From ‘outside voices, please’

Valerie Hsiung

The Songs of Canceled Men

A new book revisits the lives of artists like James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra and asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.

Joe Bucciero

Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power

As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.

Namwali Serpell

Puzzle No. 3516

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Liz Phair on Everyday ‘Horror Stories’

The Grammy-nominated musician speaks to The Nation about her new memoir.

Dave Zirin

How Should We Remember Imelda Marcos?

A new documentary looks at how the matriarch of the Philippines’ most infamous political dynasty is rewriting her family’s legacy.

Rebecca Liu

‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet

Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.

Darryl Pinckney

Top 10 Veterans Day Songs

The best way to support the troops is to make every effort to keep them out of harm’s way.

Peter Rothberg

30 Years Ago Eastern Europeans Tore Down Walls. Now They Write Pop Songs to Putin.

How crony capitalism and crippling austerity turned democracy into a dirty word.

Lev Golinkin