‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Refute Trump’s Fact-Filled Tweets ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Refute Trump’s Fact-Filled Tweets
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Dec 18, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
‘Roma’ for the People ‘Roma’ for the People
Alfonso Cuarón’s new film breathes new life into Mexico’s “haunted” presidential palace.
Dec 17, 2018 / Ellen Freeman
The Black Feminist Roots of James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ The Black Feminist Roots of James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of the 1971 novel updates its black feminist framework to reflect today’s issues.
Dec 17, 2018 / Elias Rodriques
The Marxist Pop-Culture Theorist Who Influenced a Generation The Marxist Pop-Culture Theorist Who Influenced a Generation
Through his blog, k-punk, Mark Fisher pioneered a different kind of cultural criticism.
Dec 14, 2018 / Rob Arcand
The Triumph of the Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Soul of a Nation’ The Triumph of the Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Soul of a Nation’
The landmark exhibit captures the revolutionary spirit and powerful introspection of black art in the 1960s and ’70s.
Dec 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Playground, Night Washing Over Playground, Night Washing Over
A far sunset when we enter isn’t done yet when some things get as off centre as the swing set’s swaying censer. Here the landlocked grainy colour sandbox goes gray, grows a duller…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brian Wickers
Ceylon Ceylon
—the word’s on the tip of your tongue (or, as you say it, tong), as we take tea. Waiting for you to speak, I sip mine: Tetley’s tastes of nothing, but I suppose it’s good to know t…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Vidyan Ravinthiran
Why We Have No Future Why We Have No Future
I want to be free To get up in the morning, pee And not come back to bed. We have no future together, he said Drawing a line in the sand Of my chest, my nipples Rival castles divid…
Dec 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / D.A. Powell
Letters From the January 7, 2019, Issue Letters From the January 7, 2019, Issue
The war on war… The US as it should be…
Dec 13, 2018 / Our Readers and Stephen Wertheim