Kendrick Lamar’s Poetic Awakening Kendrick Lamar’s Poetic Awakening
How an encounter with a creative writing teacher changed the LA rapper’s life.
Oct 8, 2020 / Marcus J. Moore
John Luther Adams’s Songs for a Vanished World John Luther Adams’s Songs for a Vanished World
A conversation, conducted via satellite phone, with the legendary composer about his new memoir, Silences So Deep, and the music of his life.
Oct 7, 2020 / Rumaan Alam
After Abolition After Abolition
Prisons and cops survive only in tales for the young like twin Atlantises or two drowned boogeymen. A cop’s as harmless a Halloween getup as any monster, while a prisoner costume’s…
Oct 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Carrero Lopez
Sufjan Stevens’s Lullabies for the Apocalypse Sufjan Stevens’s Lullabies for the Apocalypse
His new album’s gentle pessimism about our state of affairs makes for a weirdly soothing musical experience.
Oct 1, 2020 / Bijan Stephen
How Kendrick Lamar Became the Voice of a Generation How Kendrick Lamar Became the Voice of a Generation
A conversation with Marcus J. Moore about his cultural biography of Lamar and the L.A. rapper’s impact on Black America.
Sep 30, 2020 / Q&A / Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Behind the Myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini Behind the Myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini
On the artistic afterlife of the Italian filmmaker, poet, novelist, and polemicist.
Sep 28, 2020 / Barry Schwabsky
The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’ The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’
Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the eccentric inventor is a portrait of the tensions that arise when art and commerce intersect.
Sep 23, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office
Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day.
Sep 22, 2020 / Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
Tea Tea
I can’t get away from it. Felted-up reenactors shoving a great fake crate of it into the Harbor and jeering. After the tour group leaves, they fish it back out and towel it off, un…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero
Apocryphal Apocryphal
You made me crude because you were afraid and too easily in awe— but I also loved that about you, the sincerity of your love, the centrality of your worry. Had I intervened to priv…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Phelps