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Top 10 Memorial Day Songs

Top 10 Memorial Day Songs Top 10 Memorial Day Songs

Songs about war and attendant suffering cut across musical genres.

May 26, 2018 / Peter Rothberg

Finding a Way Back Home

Finding a Way Back Home Finding a Way Back Home

The many Philip Roths.

May 25, 2018 / David Marcus

The Presence and Absence of Basquiat

The Presence and Absence of Basquiat The Presence and Absence of Basquiat

You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun…

May 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

We Learned the Mountains by Heart

We Learned the Mountains by Heart We Learned the Mountains by Heart

We went to school we ate pink beef we drank lots of water we snorted ritalin our nostrils turned red we lifted weights we killed a mama moose we sold her teeth online we poked each…

May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Holbert

Puzzle No. 3468

Puzzle No. 3468 Puzzle No. 3468

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1  Composer’s pants: Sample of inseam is blue, unfortunately (4,8)  9 After onset of tragedy, regretful one is m…

May 24, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Standard of Pure Abstraction

The Standard of Pure Abstraction The Standard of Pure Abstraction

The painters Joe Overstreet and James Little subvert the demands of representation.

May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Broadway’s Golden-Age Shows and #MeToo

Broadway’s Golden-Age Shows and #MeToo Broadway’s Golden-Age Shows and #MeToo

A certain critical consternation awaited the current productions of My Fair Lady and Carousel—and with good reason.

May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon

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The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

May 17, 2018 / Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Progression of Flatbush Zombies

The Progression of Flatbush Zombies The Progression of Flatbush Zombies

On Vacation in Hell, the group is more interested in expressing their political views and touching on subjects far beyond their roots in “psychedelic hip-hop.”

May 11, 2018 / Steve Erickson

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Mary Halvorson’s Kinetic Improvisation Mary Halvorson’s Kinetic Improvisation

The guitarist’s music is exhilarating, unapologetically smart, and unspoiled by phoniness or pretense.

May 10, 2018 / David Hajdu

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