Eight must-read stories that investigate science, belief, and the human impulse to tell stories.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Technology
Performance Art: On Sharing Culture
With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?
Posted inNonfiction
Debt Demands a Body
“The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
The Myth of Making It
If the most financially and critically successful artists don’t feel successful, maybe there’s something wrong with how we think about success.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Woman’s Rights
From the editorial board of the New York Times, an eight-part interactive series on the state-by-state push to restrict the rights of pregnant women.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events
The ‘Treasonous’ Teens Living in One Nation Under Guns
Three stories on youth activism in conservative towns shed an interesting light on the national gun debate.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Janelle Monáe’s New Music Teases a Queer, Femme Sensibility
Singer Janelle Monáe’s first full-length album in five years, “Dirty Computer,” takes an explicit look at sexual expression and female identity.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Grieving Landscape
Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Wonderful Things: The Kid Creole and the Coconuts Story
Combining island sounds with stylish clothes and an unforgettable stage presence, one of New York City’s most original bands helped influence 1980s pop culture, and they never sacrificed their unclassifiable artistic vision.
