Discovered 70 years after it was written, Claude McKay’s Amiable With Big Teeth depicts an overlooked time in African American history when communism and black nationalism found themselves entangled.
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How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal.
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A Time story got pilloried for focusing not on the speech the human rights lawyer delivered to the U.N., but on her “baby bump.” It deserved the mockery … and, in another way, it didn’t.
The tracks on the Magnetic Fields’ new album take on Stephin Merritt’s biography year by year, but the underlying story is about art itself.
Creator Joss Whedon’s narrative risk-taking—seamlessly blending episodes-of-the-week with heavy serialization—set the tone for the Golden Age of television.
As the WB show turns 20, a look at how it dealt with grief in season five
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s Vietnam-era reimagination of the giant ape is just good enough to make you wish it were better.
The debate around the new French arthouse drama This Is Our Land says a lot about the rise of the country’s far-right.
Olivier Assayas’s new film stars Kristen Stewart as a grief-stricken Parisian fashionista who moonlights as a medium.
Mohsin Hamid’s striking, lyrical new novel explores how lives can be upended in the blink of an eye.
The composer Ramin Djawadi leads a concert tour that’s less a musical showcase than a rewind through the HBO drama’s six seasons.
Joan Didion’s South and West: From a Notebook is a 1970s-era artifact that has found its proper home in the anxious world of 2017.
The show’s current Donald Trump impressionist is signaling his imminent departure, and there doesn’t seem to be a backup plan.
The show’s seasonal The Women Tell All special could be read as a cocktail-dress-clad invocation of current events.
Dissecting a line from the author’s story “The Embassy of Cambodia,” Jonathan Lee questions his own myopia as a novelist.
The rapper is spending his good will—and $1 million in ticket sales—on Chicago Public Schools.
The musician and executive producer of the WGN historical drama discusses the contemporary relevance of telling marginalized stories.
The show feels less urgent whenever it presents members of the Trump administration as brainless simpletons.
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.