As the lead vocalist for veteran Philly hip-hop innovators the Roots, Tariq Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, has spent the last thirty years exploring and reshaping the art of emceeing. With…
Finally, the mint is up. My small ambit
of yard. Monitoring its progress.
The azalea has a few tightly furled pinks
like napkins twisted in a lap
anxiously below the dinner table.
As a…
Let me lift my shirt for you.
Let me bear my throat.
One dollar! One dollar!
Cut as deep as you like!
One dollar! The Bloodless…
Books Read:
Oh William!—Elizabeth Strout Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise—Scott Eyman The Burgess Boys—Elizabeth Strout Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me —Adrienne Brodeur
Books Bought:
Wild Game: My…
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I was raised to believe that I was made to do one thing. Find that one pursuit that fills my life with meaning and empty all my energy into it.…
It was on a cold evening in March 2017, during my first visit to Srinagar, Kashmir, as a reporter, that I first read an excerpt from Cups of nun chai…
The room you spend the most time in is the focus.
For a week, live with as many straight lines as you can find. Bring in other objects and furniture.…
![Matthew Jeon leans back, clutching the medal hanging around his neck with a disengaged expression. The words [already stopped listening] appear above his head.](https://d3ml8cfhn9inlg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20190322_FSR_311.00_04_54_03.Still018.jpg)
Hyperlinked spectatorship. A video that embeds its own reaction video. Viewing experiences designed to mirror the editing process: an exercise in managing large amounts of information. These are the hallmarks…
Where to begin with a writer like Percival Everett? The author of more than thirty books, primarily novels, he defies easy distillation. An absurdist and a cowboy, a Westerner and…
“LAPD! Hands up!”
A chorus of voices clipped the mid-May breeze, forcing its way into our open living room windows and breaking the barrier that “home” is supposed to make.…
What form
do you ask for
pointing at me
with your scorn-
raised brow
you clutch your
coxcomb velvet robe
with your left hand
ringed married to God
in cuffed surplice
and say: so shall
you burn
What dunce cap
bows…
It’s often said that we live in an attention economy. Various media and technology corporations—whether it’s Instagram, HBO, Spotify, or Twitter—are in constant competition for our attention, and not only…
In January 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report “The Employment Situation.” As might have been expected ten months after the World Health Organization declared a global…
