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Ulysses S. Grant working on his memoir in 1885, shortly before his death. Historian Ron Chernow's terrific and worthwhile new biography of Grant will last you from the dog days into Indian summer.
The big (a new biography of Ulysses S. Grant), the small (conservative support for Medicare for All), and the can’t-lose fiction option. |
 Yvette Granata’s disquisition in cyber technology about one possible outcome of the cyber-race: post-cyberfeminism. |
Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade.
You may find yourself laughing and wincing almost simultaneously at Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade. That’s a compliment. |
 New offerings from the band formerly known as Major Arcana and the rapper formerly known as Jeremy Jermaine Jerome . |
Cobblestone Live, 2017. Photo by Tim Merrill
Over the last few months, we’ve done a bunch of coverage of artists who will be performing at the Cobblestone Live music festival this weekend, so we thought... |
Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill in Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot.
Once seen, the cartoons of John Callahan are not easily forgotten. |
 Guaranteed Painkiller Michael Beitz at Anna Kaplan Contemporary |
Claire Falkenstein, Turnabout, ca. 1964. Copper. University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Gift of the David K. Anderson Family.
Artist Claire Falkenstein thought about sculpture as space itself. Or really, space-time. |