Entertainment
Conning the con
More than once as we sit soaking up sunshine and sipping on tea in her backyard, Anne Waldman alludes to her own death—but not...
The language of the people
In 1990, a lawyer named Craig Ferguson found himself in a hotel room in Chicago dreaming of a new phase of his life, one...
Death at the Fringe
Every year since 2014, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has hosted a series called Death on the Fringe, a festival within the festival that explores...
Magic in the acoustic guitar
We don’t know, and wouldn’t ask, if Andy McKee was a church-going kind of guy. But preparing for our interview, we came across a...
Like clarifying history with lightning
It’s a famous shot from one of the most widely seen movies in the history of cinema: Scarlett O’Hara searching desperately for a doctor...
Summer Time
I can’t think about summer enough.
The gooey melancholy warm inside me like
FAT Krinkle-Kut French Fries dipped in ketchup
In between pool games and juke box...
Speaking for America
"Like campers around a campfire sharing ghost stories, except all the stories are supposedly true, and the thing we’re gathered around is not a...
Jupiter in Taurus
I press the snooze button on my alarm
three times and then
finally wake up happy
I step in to the outfit
already laid out, place my foot
in...
All things being equalized
Writing about The Equalizer 2 — unforgivably not titled The Sequelizer — has to be harder than actually writing The Equalizer 2. Sure, penning...
Life, liberty and the pursuit of Elvis
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is in search of the American Dream. To find it, he loads up Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce with a camera rig...
All who wander are not lost
It’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits...
