Talking with the author of The Underground Railroad about knowing when the time is right to write a book, schools skipping over slavery, and why Sonic Youth made his acknowledgments page.
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Nate Parker is Black; in that sense, attacks against him are also attacks against me. How unsettling, then, that defenses of him are attacks against me, too.
When my family made pilgrimage to Saudia Arabia in my grandmother's memory, we were struck by the state of faith and war.
The author of American Heiress on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, San Francisco in the '70s, and why we're fascinated by decades-old trials.
I’m giving myself a pass to eat what I want—my husband has cancer, after all. I find that it helps to keep a taste in my mouth.
Their suburban lives are free of disturbances, and so they create their own in order to taste some kind of excitement.
The director on the full restoration of Multiple Maniacs.
The archetypical Kanye fan is no longer the person who listened to Dipset but also watched Def Poetry Jam. They have been essentially priced out of fandom.
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