A New Picture of Karl Marx A New Picture of Karl Marx
Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.
Mar 19, 2018 / Annie Julia Wyman
Courage Courage
Stillness until six, the yards and porches giant toy sets for the street cats. Each sleep a baffling practice for leaving you behind entirely, even if we’re touching hands. For the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Nate Klug
Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages
Please know that I read them all and could not weep, afraid to compromise the task I was handed: to reconstitute this you in the Spanish tongue. Know that I aimed to honor what the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / José A. Rodríguez
Puzzle No. 3460 Puzzle No. 3460
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 7 Carol devours Vonnegut’s first book (5) 8 Paradise is quiet, and almost madly angelic at the outset (7-2) 9…
Mar 15, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
John Ashbery’s Day Job John Ashbery’s Day Job
The poet as art critic.
Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Genre of Post-Genre The Genre of Post-Genre
William Brittelle has drawn from classical music, punk rock, and electronica to produce music that is at once free-ranging and a thrill to experience.
Mar 13, 2018 / David Hajdu
Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’ Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’
Mythmaking can connect the past to the present, and reveal a promised future.
Mar 9, 2018 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Language Is a ‘War Zone’: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Language Is a ‘War Zone’: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
The Kenyan author discusses colonialism and abandoning English to write in his native Kikuyu.
Mar 9, 2018 / Q&A / Rohit Inani
Music for Dark Times Music for Dark Times
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
Mar 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Puzzle No. 3459 Puzzle No. 3459
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Steamship in a lake? Quite the opposite when making a TV show (6) 4 Style accessory is small and brittle (8)…
Mar 8, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto