The Triumph of the Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Soul of a Nation’ The Triumph of the Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Soul of a Nation’
The landmark exhibit captures the revolutionary spirit and powerful introspection of black art in the 1960s and ’70s.
Dec 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Playground, Night Washing Over Playground, Night Washing Over
A far sunset when we enter isn’t done yet when some things get as off centre as the swing set’s swaying censer. Here the landlocked grainy colour sandbox goes gray, grows a duller…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brian Wickers
Ceylon Ceylon
—the word’s on the tip of your tongue (or, as you say it, tong), as we take tea. Waiting for you to speak, I sip mine: Tetley’s tastes of nothing, but I suppose it’s good to know t…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Vidyan Ravinthiran
Why We Have No Future Why We Have No Future
I want to be free To get up in the morning, pee And not come back to bed. We have no future together, he said Drawing a line in the sand Of my chest, my nipples Rival castles divid…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / D.A. Powell
Puzzle No. 3485 Puzzle No. 3485
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung pertaining to French population decline (3-3) 4 Fish beginning to drink liquor?…
Dec 13, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Rest in Power, Ali Documentarian Bill Siegel Rest in Power, Ali Documentarian Bill Siegel
The sudden loss of the filmmaker is a blow to our political world.
Dec 12, 2018 / Dave Zirin
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia
The second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show is stuck in its comfort zone.
Dec 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Marshall
If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless, If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless,
I could gather up old thoughts the way a mind distant in love brings about a gathering of stars. I don’t want people thinking I don’t care about the future. Plenty of people are wr…
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Laura Eve Engel
Puzzle No. 3484 Puzzle No. 3484
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Wickedness in half-sleazy city (7) 5 Comedian Lee cut fool short (5-2) 9 Traveler to disfigure policeman near squ…
Dec 6, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
‘The Favourite’ Is a Delectable Tale of Aristocratic Tricksters ‘The Favourite’ Is a Delectable Tale of Aristocratic Tricksters
Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film is his most intricate and sumptuous work to date.
Dec 5, 2018 / Kristen Yoonsoo Kim