Culture

Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home

Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home

Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi gets reimagined as the murderous fantasy of an angsty teenage boy.

Aug 13, 2015 / Alisa Solomon

Ukrainian nationalism

How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past

Volodymyr Viatrovych was the driving force behind new laws that restrict free speech and regulate how history is written.

Aug 13, 2015 / Jared McBride

August 13, 1899: Alfred Hitchcock is Born

August 13, 1899: Alfred Hitchcock is Born August 13, 1899: Alfred Hitchcock is Born

“Even his means are ends.”

Aug 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Puzzle No. 3371

Puzzle No. 3371 Puzzle No. 3371

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Conflict resolution technique takes time and reflection (10)  6 An elderly relative’s weight (4) 10 Lindbergh and G…

Aug 13, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Eric Garner protest

The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction

The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy

Bicyclist Bicyclist

He wobbles on his bicycle, steadies, threads an s through traffic, clank of gears, a chain around his person, a person around its breath.

Aug 13, 2015 / Poems / Patrick Morrissey

Painting by Apostolos Georgiou.

Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale

Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans

We are black and alive, still, despite what the pictures say.

Aug 13, 2015 / Feature / Kristina Kay Robinson

New Egyptian capital.

White Elephants White Elephants

As governments have changed in Egypt, the commitment to corrupt grand development projects has stayed the same.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

Angela Flournoy.

House of the Dispossessed House of the Dispossessed

Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

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