From her Nairobi studio, artist Wangechi Mutu considers her relationship with the natural world and the ways in which it has influenced her variegated artistic practice. A self-described “city girl with a nature brain,” Mutu recounts her upbringing in …
An apology for a “condescending and cringey” review
The truth is we are always litigating how we feel about a piece of music, revising opinions based on context, culture, who we’ve become, who we once were. We can’t change what we said, but we are almost always changing how we feel about it in ways both…
“Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth…”
Armando Iannucci wrote an epic poem about COVID-19. “I have written a mock epic. Epics are, by definition, very long but “mock” permits brevity. It’s a poem in the style of those daunting but rather wonderful depictions of love and loss and the battle …
FULL BEAST
The third season of HBO’s Succession arrives on October 17th. Trailer. Previously. Fanfare.
“I did everything I could to show some beauty in a corner of Afganistan”
“Leaving my photo project behind was one of the hardest parts of fleeing. It was everything I worked on for over three years. And what will happen to those pictures? What will happen to the women in the pictures?”
Photographer Fatimah Hossaini spent t…