Jon Snow Would Vote Against Brexit Jon Snow Would Vote Against Brexit
As in Game of Thrones, Brexit’s villains are extremists fixated on short-term personal gain at the expense of everyone else.
Apr 26, 2019 / Peter Biskind
Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns
The Detroit rapper’s new album offers a panorama of gun culture that brims with disarming nuance and clarity.
Apr 25, 2019 / Stephen Kearse
Puzzle No. 3498 Puzzle No. 3498
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Eggs without salt for one possibly destined to be a queen (4) 3 Prince sat uneasily with hankering to hold gun (10…
Apr 25, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything
Damon Krukowski’s new book is critique of capitalism disguised as a meditation on playback technology.
Apr 24, 2019 / Q&A / Sasha Geffen
Dear Melissa— Dear Melissa—
On each body is carried the shape of its absence—the uncontrollable morning— a hammock over-turned by the wind—bird- shit—which implies beauty but is not beautiful in and of itself…
Apr 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / TC Tolbert
Love Prodigal Love Prodigal
I make love when I am bored. That’s how I know I’m an intelligent animal. It’s easy to tremble—a pistil brushed with a bumblebee’s fur— and who doesn’t want to be golden, like pear…
Apr 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Traci Brimhall
Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable
The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, is all about excess, anarchy, and baby boomers.
Apr 22, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
The Bare Ruined Choirs of Notre Dame The Bare Ruined Choirs of Notre Dame
This monument to medieval faith will surely be rebuilt—by the techno-mobilization of capitalist individualism.
Apr 22, 2019 / Richard Lingeman
Back in Westeros Back in Westeros
Game of Thrones’ final season depicts a fractured world’s last shot at redemption.
Apr 19, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Puzzle No. 3497 Puzzle No. 3497
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Antique bicycle in famous lane with distant object (5-8) 9 Old vessel swapping adjacent components with one gettin…
Apr 18, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto