Mary Alice dedicated her career to portraying Black women with depth and nuance. Why were there so few parts in which she could shine?

after Phoebe Bridgers.

Listening to the American Southwest.

Beck didn’t believe in an afterlife, but he was starting to think that this was what people meant by ghosts. There was something there, he craned his mind toward it: something about ghosts. 

Searching for a new literary realism in the Anthropocene.  

Thoughts on Beyoncé and her masterful Renaissance tour.