Art and Culture

When people ask the author James McBride what he does for work, he tells them he’s a saxophone player.In a sense, that is true enough. He runs a small music program at a church in Brooklyn and spends much of his time playing the tenor…
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Back in December 2016, I was sitting in my office at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., feeling unmoored and disheartened. Every day, I walked through Lafayette Park in front of the White House to get to my work. But lately, the noise…
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The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky.It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone. But it did toss together some powerful…
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“At Happy Mediums Café, there’s nothing edible on the menu.” – The New York Times Source link
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Apple seems to be very worried about the Department of Justice’s new antitrust lawsuit, which landed Thursday with the backing of 16 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia—and you know what? It should be. Last…
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I never start a novel knowing where I’m going. I don’t write linearly, and not in clear, numbered drafts, from a beginning to an end. I gather and cut and gather…
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Ms. Hejinian savored her place among the literary mavericks. “We attended and participated in poetry readings that took place two or three or sometimes four times a week, talked until late at night at bars, launched literary journals,…
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Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who nurtured his father’s creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named Babar, for nearly seven decades — sending him, among other places, into a haunted castle, to New York…
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For some, the most-nominated people are the ones who most “deserve” to win. That’s an awfully clinical way of looking at this! Ever heard of…
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