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Milk, the Book!
The New Yorker,
For fifty years, Peter Blegvad, a musician and an illustrator, has tracked down anecdotes and quotes (Roth, Hitchcock, Cobain) for an inquiry into the mammalian liquid.
Chris Ware’s “Harvest”
The artist discusses the rituals of gathering and building memories.
The Statue Wars Turn to Cyberspace
The Kinfolk Foundation tests the rollout of its new, more diverse city “monuments”—which are only viewable digitally, like a game of Pokémon Go, but woke.
The Revolutionary Printmaking of Kerry James Marshall
“It’s really about the exploration of forms and potentials—a process of figuring out what can be done.”
A Story of Black Joy and Family Names in “Parker”
Sharon Liese and Catherine Hoffman’s short film follows three close-knit generations through the process of changing their last name and unravelling some family history.
What if Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be?
As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we doomscroll and catastrophize and feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.
The Crossword: Monday, November 20, 2023
City once dubbed the Strawberry Capital of California: six letters.
The Fall of My Teen-Age Self, by Zadie Smith
This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill.