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Pop Music Has Always Been Queer

Pop Music Has Always Been Queer Pop Music Has Always Been Queer

Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.

Apr 8, 2020 / Q&A / Tal Milovina

Echo: From the Mountains

Echo: From the Mountains Echo: From the Mountains

Unicorns brought the news of human reason to the border So we gassed them. It was unlike the echo of guitars in a stone Cathedral or midnight’s crow landing snow in a field of whea…

Apr 7, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Roger Reeves

The Coronavirus Reveals That the Stars Are Not Like Us

The Coronavirus Reveals That the Stars Are Not Like Us The Coronavirus Reveals That the Stars Are Not Like Us

If there was ever a fourth wall dividing celebrities and the rest of us on social media, the quarantine has broken it.

Apr 3, 2020 / Column / Kali Holloway

In Memoriam: Michael Sorkin, 1948–2020

In Memoriam: Michael Sorkin, 1948–2020 In Memoriam: Michael Sorkin, 1948–2020

Michael Sorkin was The Nation’s architecture critic from 2013 to 2020.

Apr 2, 2020 / Obituary / Mike Davis

Vladimir Lenin holds back Britney Spears.

Free Comrade Britney! Free Comrade Britney!

Britney Spears called for the redistribution of wealth—but she’s not even allowed to give away her own money.

Mar 31, 2020 / Sara Luterman

Lyric

Lyric Lyric

Every terror is an angle through which waiting for the universal proves vain is the new fruitful you said. I said how long must lyric prevent us from saying what needs no meaning.

Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Zohar Atkins

love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf)

love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf) love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf)

you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf at the holiday dinner I sit between you my mother, her husband, reproduction everywhere and wonder why we pass or do we pass? for…

Mar 31, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Young

Puzzle No. 3529

Puzzle No. 3529 Puzzle No. 3529

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Eastern yogi, originally in Asian capital, had a meal before beginning to read our message for Nation cryptic solve…

Mar 26, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Carbon Copies

Carbon Copies Carbon Copies

1- Cattle in the agriculture of a self besieged by the deceit of payback as insurance against extinction. There are other ways. Everything in moderation. The middle path comes afte…

Mar 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Fady Joudah

The Virtues

The Virtues The Virtues

To practice the virtues, you’ll need to ask What a virtuous person would do in a situation Like this one, here in the health-food restaurant, After witnessing the young father, two…

Mar 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Carl Dennis

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