A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections In 1950, Guthrie moved into an apartment at Beach Haven, a cluster of buildings in Brooklyn. His landlord was Donald Trump’s father. 11:38 A.M. What We Can All Do at This Moment Is Vote At the age of ninety-eight, I’m not quite up to making phone calls or ringing doorbells. But I can still vote. November 5, 2018 How a Woman Becomes a Lake What can reading Ovid, in these days of fear and sadness, reveal about the mythology of rape as heroic conquest and our collective desire for transformation? November 2, 2018 A Truly Perfect Thirty Seconds of Queen Freddie Mercury could be mischievous, but there are moments, particularly when he sings about love, that he is almost unbearably earnest. October 31, 2018 What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her “Miseducation” Hill’s current tour, designed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of her classic 1998 album, makes sense, because retrospection has always been her dominant mode. October 29, 2018 The Flourishing of Skate Culture in a Sellout Era What’s surprising about this year’s skate films, including “Mid90s” and “Skate Kitchen,” is not their existence but their authenticity. October 29, 2018 With the People’s Vote March, Brexit Goes Down the Rabbit Hole The spectacle of Brexit is likely to get more surreal in the coming days and weeks. October 23, 2018 A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera Not all the sounds that Anita Rachvelishvili made in her magisterial performance in Sonja Frisell’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” were beautiful, but all had a dramatic point. October 4, 2018 The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment What we witnessed on Thursday was the Republican Party testing how far its politics of entitlement can go. And there is no limit. September 27, 2018 The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation Helicopters, boats, and man-made attractions are threatening to spoil the silence and beauty of one the country’s greatest national treasures. September 26, 2018