Melii Is Not Playing Around Melii Is Not Playing Around
The Afro-Latina Harlem rapper’s brash music slides seamlessly between languages, cultures, and the boundaries of genre.
May 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
Puzzle No. 3501 Puzzle No. 3501
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 At first, acute pressure to back up claims (7) 5 Like one receiving a pension or new wheels? (7) 9 En route, I sm…
May 30, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Imani Perry’s Liberation Feminism Imani Perry’s Liberation Feminism
The African-American studies professor sits down with The Nation to discuss books, Beyoncé, and the radical potential of the academy.
May 29, 2019 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini
Suzan-Lori Parks Dares to Get Into Your Head Suzan-Lori Parks Dares to Get Into Your Head
In her recent play White Noise and a new film adaptation of Native Son, Parks probes the terrible truths of the American imagination.
May 28, 2019 / Alisa Solomon
Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
In Herzog’s latest film, Meeting Gorbachev, we end up learning a lot more about the director than about his subject.
May 24, 2019 / Elena Goukassian
On the Passing of Former WWE ‘Diva’ and Whistle-Blower Ashley Massaro On the Passing of Former WWE ‘Diva’ and Whistle-Blower Ashley Massaro
She will be remembered for her courageous truth-telling.
May 23, 2019 / Dave Zirin
Lincoln Kirstein’s Intimate Modernism Lincoln Kirstein’s Intimate Modernism
A new show at the MoMA illustrates how one of New York’s great cultural impresarios and writers espoused a more magical realist vision of modern art history.
May 23, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace
The Hudson Yards cultural center proves—yet again—that art is inseparable from commerce.
May 23, 2019 / Tiana Reid
Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook
The performer’s work presents a riotous vision of what an intergenerational left might look like.
May 23, 2019 / Ari M. Brostoff
Mange Meat Mange Meat
We’re so late-stage that we trade our storm-wet cash for synthetic fuzz, as if fleece wasn’t the shorn warmth of a bleating thing. There is a new wolf in me this winter and I can’t…
May 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Alicia Mountain