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Kate DiCamillo on the Solace of Fairy Tales
[ad_1] When the children’s author Kate DiCamillo was a girl, she would listen over and over to a record of the Brothers Grimm story “The Juniper Tree”—in which, among other...
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
[ad_1] The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society.” Lower than proletariat workers,...
Season 2 Update: Five Years Later
[ad_1] After nearly twenty-three years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’s reporting. Now he’s back in Winona, Mississippi, where his saga began. What...
NBA YoungBoy Stands Alone
[ad_1] Few musical events in recent memory have promised more mayhem than this one: the first major headlining tour by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper of uncommon power and...
Who Owns Lexus?
[ad_1] Lexus is one of the most popular car brands worldwide, but the brand initially felt somewhat left behind by its competitors. Honda and Nissan were creating and promoting luxury...
A Season of Rage at the Philharmonic and the Met
[ad_1] John Corigliano’s First Symphony, which Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic presented early in the new season, begins with a blistering wail of orchestral rage. Strings play a...
Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities
[ad_1] Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence. [ad_2] Source link
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
[ad_1] Plus he’s hot. He’s a hot Catholic priest who, in my mind, I was picturing Joe Alwyn the whole time.I want to see the portraits Wyeth makes of him....
The Old-School Spanish Restaurant Gets the Respect It Deserves
[ad_1] Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years. El Faro, among the oldest of...
The Original Brooklyn Selfie King
[ad_1] He’s a good-looking young man, slouching on a bed in his Brooklyn apartment, taking a selfie. Oh, has he pulled out all the stops. He has mounted an old-fashioned...
