Austra’s Ear for the Moment Austra’s Ear for the Moment
The band’s new album calls for the future by harkening to the past.
Feb 16, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Erin Vanderhoof
Is ‘The Salesman’ the Best Foreign-Language Film of 2016? Is ‘The Salesman’ the Best Foreign-Language Film of 2016?
Stuart Klawans on Asghar Farhadi’s new feature.
Feb 16, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
49 Years Ago, Harry Belafonte Hosted the Tonight Show—and It Was Amazing 49 Years Ago, Harry Belafonte Hosted the Tonight Show—and It Was Amazing
He interviewed RFK and MLK months before their deaths. Fifteen of 25 guests were African American.
Feb 16, 2017 / Feature / Joan Walsh
The Muse of History The Muse of History
I. CLIO “let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth” The past’s fantasia cannot hold or let us go. Flycatcher catching itself in the pool’s glint gaze, Samarkand where Tamerlane…
Feb 9, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Cynthia Zarin
Late Afternoon Late Afternoon
(for Alice Truax) Three pairs of binoculars but which one works— why do we say “pair” when we mean one? What we see is what we are—the swimming pool’s black shadow eye-mote, a mole…
Feb 9, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Cynthia Zarin
Anxiety Anxiety
Cat claws on the heart’s tin roof, each breath a locomotive running off the rails, the switching signal’s warning rat-a-tat, I’m up too early, the alphabet net snags and tears, mot…
Feb 9, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Cynthia Zarin
Puzzle No. 3422 Puzzle No. 3422
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 What comes after I imitate mockery (4) 3 In the absence of objective fact, send leader of team ahead of Yankee slu…
Feb 9, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity
For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.
Feb 3, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
That It Might Save, or Drown Them That It Might Save, or Drown Them
I have seen how the earth erodes differently from the way that trust does. Likewise, I know what it means, to come to love all over again the very mistakes I also know, looking bac…
Feb 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips
Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished
And he woke again like a thief undetected, invisible therefore, and therefore free. The bronze horse’s hoof stood raised for apparently ever about to trample beneath it the cross o…
Feb 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips