“I don’t want to show myself because I don’t think I’m very interesting to look at. The world is filled with so many other interesting things to look at.”
Interview
Rock Feature: Despite the Pandemic, Goose Is Flying High
“It was a little frustrating at first, but we’re figuring out how to give music to the people that need it right now.”
Theater Feature: An Interview with Benny Sato Ambush on Directing the Virtual Reading of Anthony Clarvoe’s “The Living”
“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”
Arts Remembrance: Critic Stanley Crouch — Jazz as a Metaphor for Democracy
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
Dance Feature: The “Table of Silence Project 9/11” — Reimagined
“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”
Film Interview: Budd Schulberg on Being a Screenwriter in Hollywood
“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”
Author Interview: Peniel E. Joseph on “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.”
“Malcolm X and MLK evolved over time and came to converge in surprising ways. Malcolm’s movement for radical black dignity became a global human rights touchstone in a manner that made King’s struggle for radical black citizenship both necessary and more expansive.”
Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life
“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”
Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”
“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
Music Feature: Gideon King & City Blog — Forward Motion in a Backwards Time
“As artists, it’s our obligation to keep going. I really believe we have to push for the world to open up again.”