Sam Stein's 'Capital City': Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity?
root	 Jul 8, 2019 0
Luxury apartments are advertised in a realtor's window on the West Side of Manhattan on July 24th, 2018.(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Solange Knowles, when asked about her song "Cranes in the Sky" by her sister Beyoncé for a 2017…
Gary Sinise Pays Tribute To The Character Who Helped Him 'Forge A Bond' With Military
Actor Gary Sinise offered a tribute Saturday to Lieutenant Dan Taylor, the fictional character he credited with helping him to "forge a bond" with America's service members, past and present. "25 years ago Forrest Gump opened in…
Celebrate America's Birthday With These Bada** Military Photos
The United States of America is the greatest country in the history of the world and on Thursday, July 4, we will celebrate her 243rd birthday. But while we're crushing cold beer, devouring delicious barbecue, and watching beautiful…
What Does It Mean to Be a "Real" Writer?
Talent is like obscenity: you know it when you see it. It's something that can't be defined, only recognized—an irreducible and unteachable entity, like charisma or humor, and its confirmation all the more coveted for being so. In his…
Bernie Sanders Says Assault Weapons 'Come From The Military'
root	 Jun 28, 2019 0
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Thursday during the Democratic primary debate that assault weapons are "weapons from the military" that should not be legal to purchase. Sanders was asked by MSNBC debate moderator…
"Fleishman Is in Trouble" Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out
"Fleishman Is in Trouble," by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, meanders amiably until it becomes, suddenly, all sharpness. The novel is about Toby Fleishman, a hepatologist in his forties who is undergoing a bitter divorce from his wife, Rachel.…
Bette Midler Looks Back on Her Autobiographical, Fantastical Children's Book, "The Saga of Baby…
For Bette Midler, the early nineteen-eighties was a period of searching. Her début studio album, "The Divine Miss M," from 1972, had catapulted her from cult lounge singer to national star, and the record's success had led to film…
The Forgotten History of Jewish Arab Life
A playful photo of Hayoun's family in Tunis, in the late 1940s.(Photo: Courtesy of Massoud Hayoun)I am a Jewish Arab. For many, I'm a curiosity or a detestable thing. Some say I don't exist, or if I did, I no longer do. I reject these…
How Gyo Fujikawa Found Freedom by Making Children's Books
One of the first images in "A Child's Book of Poems," a 1969 collection illustrated by the American artist Gyo Fujikawa, shows a boy on a hill, heading to a village under an enormous sun. This sun, unlike the real one, encourages…
Natasha Trethewey Reads Charles Wright
Natasha Trethewey joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Charles Wright's poem "Toadstools," and her own poem "Repentance." Trethewey, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the…