Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival
Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul; the band’s most recent record, “Dance Fever,” just came out. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and m...
24 Touko 202221min
The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care
Across the United States, conservative politicians are leading a backlash against L.G.B.T.Q. identity, framing legal restrictions as protection of children. Several states have introduced laws to ban ...
20 Touko 202229min
The Comedian Megan Stalter on Finding Inspiration in American Absurdity
Before the pandemic, Megan Stalter was an unknown comedian, trying to catch a lucky break at clubs in New York City. But with the arrival of COVID-19, social media became her only outlet, and she quic...
17 Touko 202228min
The Battle After Roe v. Wade
Assuming that Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization gets majority support, there will be profound social, political, and he...
13 Touko 202220min
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is in a genre all its own—you could call it sci-fi-martial-arts-family-drama. Stephanie Hsu plays both Joy, an angsty teen-ager struggling with her immigrant mothe...
10 Touko 202220min
The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi; and a Look at White Empathy
Last week, a draft opinion was leaked which suggests that a majority of Supreme Court Justices are ready to overturn the precedents of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey—the decisions that ha...
6 Touko 202228min
Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New Artist. One of the songs on that record was “The Last Chance...
3 Touko 202221min
A Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters a third month, prospects of ending the conflict are still nowhere in sight, and there seems to be no end to the destruction that Vladimir Putin is willing to ...
29 Huhti 202226min
