To Sleep With Anger Is a Masterpiece From an Overlooked Film PioneerTo Sleep With Anger begins with a shot of a middle-aged African American man named Gideon (played by Paul Butler) dressed in his Sunday best: a crisp light-blue suit. On the table beside him are a bowl of fruit and a fading p… Read MoreChimpanzees Are Going Through a Tragic LossImagine that an alien species landed on Earth and, through their mere presence, those aliens caused our art to vanish, our music to homogenize, and our technological know-how to disappear. That is effectively what humans have… Read MoreWhat Solange’s When I Get Home Shares With Stevie Wonder’s Most Esoteric AlbumLast week, the eclectic, Houston-born musician Solange Knowles released her first studio album since 2016’s landmark A Seat at the Table. Titled When I Get Home, the record was accompanied by a film of the same name. The proj… Read MoreThe Only Democrat Running to Challenge Trump on National SecurityDemocrats running for president have been so busy talking about how they’d change the country that they’ve barely talked about protecting it.
They’re campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire on health care and climate change. Re… Read MoreLeaving Neverland and the Burden of the Postmortem Exposé“Can we continue to celebrate the genius in the face of the monster?” asked the writer Pearl Cleage in the title essay from her 1990 collection, Mad at Miles. Cleage was attempting to contend with both the cultural legacy of … Read More
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