Culture
Quibbling with Quibi: Considerations on the new platform of ‘quick bite’ entertainment
May 19, 2020Quibi, which stands for Quick Bites—bursts of entertainment, none more than 10 minutes and most less, designed for mobile phone use on the go—launched in the U.S. in early April in the midst of the quarantine.
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‘Crowns of Thorns’: A poetic response to the coronavirus crisis
May 18, 2020A new selection from working-class poet Peter Marcus.
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‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power
May 12, 2020It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.
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‘Last Dance’: Face the music with Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls
May 11, 2020As we sit in quarantine and practice physical distancing, with too little money and too much time on our hands, a masked nation turns its lonely eyes to . . . Michael Jordan.
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‘Anonymous Man’: Astounding new choral CD on home, homelessness and history
May 8, 2020Perhaps the next time we see people living on the street they won’t appear so anonymous.
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