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Ken Jennings Has Some Questions About Death

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2003, Ken Jennings was a twenty-nine-year-old software engineer, living in a suburb of Salt Lake City with his wife and young son, when his old college roommate suggested that they…

Donald Trump Was Wrong To Politicize Parkland Victims

View gallery Donald Trump, while you were tweeting this weekend about how the FBI was spending too much time “trying to prove Russian collusion” with your campaign, 17 Florida families were beginning to bury their loved ones. That’s right, just…

A Different Kind of Coming-Out Story in “Dad Can Dance”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At heart, “Dad Can Dance” intimately explores the relationship between craft and identity, the unfinishable, imperfectible task of self-discovery and self-invention. In 2018, the artist and filmmaker Jamie Ross was headed…

The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The inclination came to the child during punishment. A young Awol Erizku got kicked out of class for pulling a prank. Limbo was an art room. Waiting for whatever repercussions, the…

“The Idol” Is All Smoke and Mirrors

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Lily-Rose Depp as Jocelyn.Photograph by Eddy Chen / Courtesy HBO Minutes into the first episode of “The Idol,” on HBO, the series offers a rejoinder to the controversy surrounding its supposed…

The World-Changing Trees of Vincent van Gogh

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s a law of nature: every year brings a gust of theories about Vincent van Gogh. His life has been scrutinized for so long that we seem to have all the…