February 2022
Bringing Memories
Claude McKay offered in Harlem Shadows a genuinely new sensibility in African American and Black Caribbean arts...
Read MoreOld New Music
New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be...
Read MoreThe serious amateur hopes for something more…
Many people who engage in some pursuit avidly yet non-professionally might not share Adorno’s condescending attitude towards hobbies...
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“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”
The footage is remarkable for showing Kanye in a private space that is a world away from the equally intimate – but also highly public – outbursts for which he is now better known...
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GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS
Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago...
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Thus Saith the Rhino
‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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