SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.
Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
Oct 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Puzzle No. 3478 Puzzle No. 3478
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Composer taking and retaking ingredients of Advil? Not! (7,7) 10 What remains after a fire: a tree (3) 11 Herb’s te…
Oct 4, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Puzzle No. 3477 Puzzle No. 3477
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Someone who brought Oscar home protects distressed Grouch with prayer (10) 6 Cautious women, we hear, concea…
Sep 27, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism
In Support the Girls, the filmmaker offers us warmhearted comedy about coping with the intolerable.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library. Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library.
Public libraries are critical within the public sphere and, when fully supported, represent the best of government at work.
Sep 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Fandango Doctrine The Fandango Doctrine
On using the arts to restore the amity and goodwill among people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Sep 17, 2018 / Kabir Sehgal
What the Black Dolls Say What the Black Dolls Say
These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
Sep 17, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda