Arts & Culture
Episode 81: Summer pandemic movie roundup
Matt and Adam talk about what they watched over their summer break
I May Destroy You takes us on a quest for wholeness
As Arabella struggles to remember the night she was assaulted, other memories emerge as well.
The artist at the end of the world
Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity.
Are we trapped by the way others see us?
Brit Bennett’s novel explores racial passing, gender transition, and family trauma.
From black and white to Black and White
Why we’re capitalizing terms for racial identity
Dr. King’s voice in verse
Joseph Ross’s poems are an elegy for the civil rights movement’s martyrs.
When the best of times and the worst of times coincide
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.
Rock star Yuri Shevchuk imagines an anti-nationalist Russian democracy
The performances of his band, DDT, are like teach-ins.
Louise Erdrich’s novel gives names, faces, words, and life to the Chippewa Turtle Mountain Band
A story of survival in the face of termination