In Claudia Rankine’s ‘The White Card’, Timely Questions of Race and Representation Take Center Stage In Claudia Rankine’s ‘The White Card’, Timely Questions of Race and Representation Take Center Stage
The poet’s debut play addresses appropriation, cultural ownership, and dirty money in the art world.
Apr 10, 2019 / Alisa Solomon
The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold
But if the salad giant is so woke, why are 95 percent of its shops in majority white neighborhoods?
Apr 10, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman
What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless
Optic Nerve, the debut novel from Argentine writer María Gainza, is an exquisite and intimate look into one person’s idiosyncratic vision of art history.
Apr 8, 2019 / Dustin Illingworth
Who’s Going to Tell Trump? Who’s Going to Tell Trump?
Breaking: A report from inside the White House reveals infighting among advisers, consternation over Norwegian socialism, and the importance of chocolate milkshakes.
Apr 4, 2019 / Calvin Trillin
Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music
The Cape Town artist’s daring new album Death Becomes Her upends the language and conventions of pop pleasure.
Apr 4, 2019 / Sasha Geffen
Puzzle No. 3495 Puzzle No. 3495
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Actress putting lettuce in canned stew (7,6) 9 Phosphorus and others make up part of a flower (5) 10 TV personalit…
Apr 4, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI
The “emotionally huge” rock music of Sasami Ashworth lands like a gut punch on her debut album.
Apr 1, 2019 / Olivia Horn
Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Withstand the Marveldämmerung? Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Withstand the Marveldämmerung?
On the comic book universe’s Gesamtkunstwerk and other recent films.
Mar 28, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
Little Death Little Death
after Jonathas de Andrade When a man traps a fish he removes the hook from its side and once it has beaten its fright into the wooden boat with its strongest slaps he will clutch t…
Mar 28, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Galvin
Puzzle No. 3494 Puzzle No. 3494
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Hold down a soda (lawyer’s drink) (4,6) 6 Close to the target with gun, perhaps (4) 9 Covered in oddly sour wine…
Mar 28, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto