Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian singer who performs as the Weeknd, is perhaps his generation’s most committed self-mythologist. Early in his career, he obscured his identity while his moody, debased mixtapes became…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For club kids, having a spiritual awakening on the dance floor is a rite of passage. Afterward, you’ll spend a lifetime chasing the high. Music-induced, out-of-body rapture has been the foundation…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Polish word pestka has roughly the same meaning in English as the word “pip,” meaning seed, or stone, as in stone fruit. But it is also used to mean “easy”—something…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 10, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’d like to think that Nikki Giovanni would have forgiven me for misleading the seemingly oblivious white proprietor of a small bookshop in the Northeast two years ago. There were no…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The most tenacious of all clichés about Los Angeles is that it is a place with no past. Bernard-Henri Lévy, in his 2006 travelogue, “American Vertigo,” called L.A. a “city without…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past fall, the artist FKA Twigs promoted her then forthcoming album, “Eusexua,” with a series of international raves. Londoners were told to meet her at the Cause, Angelenos at the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The effort to yoke radical politics to radical aesthetics—to make art that’s revolutionary both in content and form—is as central to modernity as revolution itself is. The Cuban director Sara Gómez,…