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Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative
October 14, 2024
It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first give an opinion column. “A live coffin,” a former newspaper colleague of mine...
Rachel Bloom Has a Funny Song About Death
October 13, 2024
At the start of 2020, the comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Bloom was riding high. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical TV show that she had co-created and starred in, had...
A Bronx “Family Album” from Hip-Hop’s Early Days
October 12, 2024
Many of the photos he took during those early years appear in “The South Bronx Family Album.” In addition to Joey, who is pictured sitting cross-legged in a Buddha-like...
Owen Smith’s “Alexei Navalny”
October 11, 2024
The cover of the October 21, 2024, issue, by Owen Smith, is a portrait of Alexei Navalny, an excerpt of whose prison diaries appears in the issue. Navalny details...