‘Minari’ Is a Landmark for Asian American Cinema ‘Minari’ Is a Landmark for Asian American Cinema
Lee Isaac Chung’s poignant immigrant drama is the kind of film that can be felt with all five senses.
Feb 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop
The bilingual, bicultural songs and sounds of Sin Miedo is a daring leap forward.
Feb 10, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
Provenance Provenance
There she was in that lavender dress, in that room, in that apartment, turning around to answer his fist pounding that door in the middle of that day that…
Feb 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Paul Tran
I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie
It’s an added cruelty that we cannot mourn the loss of the avant-pop icon properly.
Feb 4, 2021 / Annie Howard
The (Extra)ordinary Work of Women The (Extra)ordinary Work of Women
Embroidery reads: “Speaking up again and again and again,” “Fighting harder for what you have earned,” “Resilience, perseverance, and exhaustion,” etc
Jan 27, 2021 / OppArt / Suzanne Faris
Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth
His HBO series We Are Who We Are looks at teenagehood less as a time in one’s life than as a mindset one inhabits.
Jan 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Yeats’ Stance Yeats’ Stance
When I was about twenty I went by myself up into the towerthe holy place and never questioned it, but felt I could never be of it. You could feel it in the air this power like bein…
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine
My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself
We are trapped in traffic beneath the overpass, and the man in his story trembles on the edge of an overpass eight hundred miles west of here. Here, I have not tried to die for som…
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Eugenia Leigh
Poison Soup Poison Soup
America is left with a taste of fascism.
Jan 22, 2021 / OppArt / J.T. Williamson
Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline
The artist's first solo show, is a reminder that pleasure is inseparable from the joint projects of abolition and freedom.
Jan 21, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Tal Milovina