Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads John L’Heureux
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Kirstin Valdez Quade joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Long Black Line,” by John L’Heureux, from a 2018 issue of the magazine. Quade is the author of the story collection “Night at the Fiestas,” which won the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and a “5…
Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty
The poor used to matter—at least as far as political rhetoric goes. About half a century ago, Lyndon Johnson launched a war not on the struggles of the American middle class but on poverty—which had been revived as a major issue by activists and public intellectuals like the socialist Michael Harrington. In 1963, Dwight MacDonald…
Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall
A day or two after the Stonewall Riots, in June, 1969, Virginia Apuzzo, a twenty-eight-year-old nun and college lecturer, went down to Sheridan Square looking to shed her shame. The shame had been with her since she was ten and proposed to a girl who was perhaps a year older, a neighbor in an apartment…
A Photographer’s Ode to the Women of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles is synonymous with spectacle. The first was a six-day-long extravaganza (Baby whales! Fireworks! The première of Molière’s “Tartuffe”!) hosted by Louis XIV, in 1664. Times change, and spectacles with them. In the twenty-first century, the palace embarked on an ambitious series of contemporary art exhibitions. The first was in 2008, when…
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The Enduring Urgency of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” at Thirty
Spike Lee’s third feature, “Do the Right Thing,” returns to movie theatres this weekend in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its release. Lee dedicated the movie, in the end credits, to the families of Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Griffith, Arthur Miller, Edmund Perry, Yvonne Smallwood, and Michael Stewart—six black people, five of whom were killed…
Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album
Thom Yorke, the singer of the British rock band Radiohead, has been thrashing against a bleak and bloodless future for more than two decades. He has a reputation for seriousness, and he has committed a good portion of his musical career to airing dystopian fears: that we are all cogs in a horrifying late-capitalist techno…
Emily Nussbaum on the TV Revolution, and Valeria Luiselli on the Border
Listen with: Click Here: fjallraven kanken backpack iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms. She spoke with David Remnick about her new book, “I Like to Watch.” And a…
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Tiffany Cabán Upends Politics As Usual in Queens
At the Queens County Criminal Courts Building, arraignments take place in the basement, and, late on Tuesday afternoon, the usual scene was unfolding there. Officers whisked in one person after another to stand before the judge; all of them had been arrested within the past twenty-four hours, and all appeared dishevelled and exhausted. One older…