When The Beatles flew from Liverpool, England to New York City in 1964, they had no idea they would become some of the most important men in music history. Sporting shiny black boots, perfectly starched suits, and identical mop-top hairstyles,…
Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Palestinian-American writer. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2020. Told in vignettes that flash between…
Every year, chambered in a well-accommodated ski resort in Davos, Switzerland, the world’s most powerful political leaders, financial conglomerates, and tech moguls gather to discuss and formulate solutions to the world’s most dire problems. The cherry-picked members of the World…
Odili Donald Odita is a Nigerian American abstract painter. His colorful, geometric pieces reside in museums across the country and have been exhibited at the world famous Venice Biennale. His painting “Rise” hangs in the Ezra Stiles College common room…
In the late ’90s, Alex Valentine, a recent high school graduate, discovered an emerging underground punk scene in the post-industrial warehouses of Providence, Rhode Island. He met artists barely older than himself living in a “lineage of punk houses,” dedicating…
On the surface, American meat appears to be an equalizer. Nearly every American — the workers, students, the elites, and even many vegetarians — have indulged in a dirty water dog or Mc-something at least once. But first impressions are…
Americans have had a steady craving for true crime stories since the 1960s. Psychologists and experts have long sought tangible explanations for the guilt-inducing pleasure of consuming entertainment depicting real human trauma. True crime stories have evolved over time, taking…
In some rare cases, admiration of a masterpiece is personal. You try to resist the urge to underline every sentence and fold every single page to later return to it, and you become enchanted by the tiniest details across the pages. Milan Kundera’s “Ignorance” became one of these for me.
