2025 Favorites: Music
Pop girl perfection, DIY radio shows, snorting pixy stix, and more.
2025 Favorites: Film
Your grandparents’ favorite show, anti-authoritarian “propaganda,” a movie that holds you as you cry, and more.
2025 Favorites: Literature
Pre-postpartum feelings, the California Zephyr train, a harrowing descent into the echoes of political violence, and more.
A New (Old) Lens on Ukraine
Trying to understand my family through Boris Mikhailov’s Ukrainian Diary.
By Sasha Mills
The Brief and Wondrous Life of the Metrocard
The swan song of a New York City icon.
By JoliAmour DuBose-Morris
Uprooted
Notes on wreckage.
By Chloe Citron
God Make Me the Most Famous So I Can Escape This Place
Selma Selman turns scrap and struggle into gold—a language of survival, desire, and resilience, now voiced in Istanbul.
By Gigi Surel
Staging Humanity in The Brothers Size
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play delicately interrogates the pitfalls of Black trauma without submitting to it.
By Ciaran Short
Off-Off Dispatch: From a Cherry Orchard to Trinity to Trinity
Two plays, reviewed: a bawdy ensemble cast and an intimate one-woman show.
By Claire Tumey
Letters of Recommendation #5
Bimonthly reading recommendations.
By Amelia Olsen
I Want to Be Ready
In London, an emerging artist interweaves military symbols and family archives.
By Sasha Mills
Ask Casey #4: Ghost Problem
An advice column.
By Copy Casey
Salvation in All the Wrong Places
Talking faith and fear with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, author of Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!
By Taylor Stout
Dancing Across Genre and Time with Chaia
The musician pairs historic Yiddish folk and klezmer dance music with otherworldly techno grooves.
By Amelia Langas
Preserving Picked Papers
in Upstate New York, Ruby Jackson makes wall-bound works out of farm-grown foods.
By Theodora Bocanegra Lang