The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne
Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.
Apr 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection
Our charge as the jury was pretty much the same as my job as a critic: to listen carefully, with open ears and an equally open mind.
Apr 23, 2018 / David Hajdu
Drifting With the Current Drifting With the Current
In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.
Apr 23, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America
Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.
Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh
Waste My Life Waste My Life
sleep, boredom, gossip, cruelty imaginary feuds and small resentments various, complex plans that amount to nothing at some point, every poet has to admit art is just a distraction…
Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Hera Lindsay Bird
Ode to the Belt Ode to the Belt
it’s clear the future does not bode well for the living my man wont let me forget where leather comes from the engineered animal bent over in chemical grass the slit thing hanged &…
Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sam Sax
Puzzle No. 3464 Puzzle No. 3464
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Momentous heart? (5-10) 9 Essential energy reflected the sound of a cat and the sound of a bird (7) 10 Backslide a…
Apr 19, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Joan Jonas’s Fragments Joan Jonas’s Fragments
More than anything else, time itself is the material Jonas works with, manipulating it as a sculptor might mold clay.
Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us
Aside from relieving liberal stress, what can anti-Trump satire accomplish?
Apr 5, 2018 / Leslie Savan
Puzzle No. 3463 Puzzle No. 3463
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Objectively, I pester an Indian tribe: It supplies three letters for the wordplay in each remaining Across entry (9…
Apr 5, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto