“Rachel Weisz Is Performing for Herself” by Susan Dominus
In a profile as beguiling because the actress herself, who was considered one of T’s 4 Greats honorees this year, Dominus subverts the standard superstar interview in service of writing a bit on feminine energy dynamics in a altering Hollywood panorama: For Weisz, Dominus writes, “The concept all alongside, since she was in faculty, appears to be to flee acquainted speaking factors of any sort, to defy tidy containers that place her neatly in some class.” Read more.
“A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions” by Ligaya Mishan
The Parsis of Western India have one of many richest meals histories on the planet, however as their inhabitants dwindles, so too does their stupor-inducing delicacies. On this poetic travelogue, Mishan reminds us that “meals is heritage, and cooking and consuming it are each day acts of constant, a method of preserving id in even essentially the most determined and unspeakable of circumstances.” Read more.
“In Conversation: Rihanna” by Jeremy O. Harris
Because the pop star deliberate to launch her luxurious label with Louis Vuitton, T scored an unique interview — performed by the playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who makes use of considered one of her songs in “Slave Play” on Broadway — whereby Rihanna discusses what it means to be a black girls on the prime of the style trade. On this humorous and sensible Q. and A., the power is palpable between the 2 artists. Read more.
“America 2024” by Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Naomi Iizuka, Michael R. Jackson, Patricia Ione Lloyd, Ted Malawer, Mona Mansour, Terrence McNally, Lynn Nottage, Adam Rapp, Paul Rudnick, Nassim Soleimanpour, Celine Tune and Sharr White
For T’s tradition challenge, we requested 15 rising and established playwrights to create unique scripts across the theme “America 2024,” musing on what the world will appear and feel like 5 years from now. When learn as a complete — in all its dramatic, comedian and generally tragic glory — the mission transmits pressing messages and meanings about what it’s to be American right now. Read more.
“The Story of the Great Japanese-American Novel” by Thessaly La Pressure
The Japanese-American author John Okada wrote the novel “No-No Boy” in 1957 a couple of draft resister who has simply returned house to Seattle after being incarcerated by the American authorities throughout World Conflict II. However the story behind the novel’s publication and its later rediscovery — together with that of 4 different works of literature written by Japanese-Individuals at across the identical time — reveals a devastating chapter in America’s previous in addition to clues as to why historical past is now repeating itself. Read more.
“Utopia, Abandoned” by Nikil Saval
Within the 1950s, spurred partly by the humanist inclinations of its proprietor Adriano Olivetti, the Olivetti typewriter producer launched into an experiment in worker welfare amongst its laborers in Ivrea, Italy. However as the corporate foundered within the second half of the 20th century, the city, whose destiny had develop into inextricably wrapped up in that of Olivetti, started to wither: Saval visits the city to discover what stays right now, a silent monument to an aborted utopia. Read more.
“Japan in Bloom” by Hanya Yanagihara
For greater than a thousand years, the cherry blossom, or sakura, has been synonymous with Japan. It’s such a vital image that almost each Japanese visible artist has been compelled to handle it of their work. However how precisely did this infatuation start — and why has it lasted? Read more.
“‘‘Giovanni’s Room’ Revisited” by Hilton Als
With 1956’s “Giovanni’s Room,” James Baldwin wrote considered one of fashionable literature’s most resonant — and complex — homosexual love tales. However although it has endured as a testomony to queer want, it additionally speaks to the author’s fraught relationship along with his personal blackness and masculinity. Right here, a reconsideration and a reimagining of Baldwin’s basic novel. Read more.
“Long Live Eccentric English Design” by Nancy Hass
The singularly bonkers aesthetic honed in the UK over the centuries has reached a recent apotheosis — and this group of stars is rising to the highest of the heap in worldwide inside design by each referencing their nation’s historical past and reflecting on colour, wit and wackiness. Read more.
“In Chile, Homes as Extreme as the Landscape Itself” by Michael Snyder
The longest, skinniest, most excessive South American nation has develop into an structure pilgrimage amongst cognoscenti seeking to uncover the way forward for buildings — and of Modernism, too. Snyder explores that heritage with deep data and evocative prose. Read more.
“The Gay History of America’s Classic Children’s Books” by Jesse Inexperienced
Lots of the authors all of us learn as kids — together with James Marshall, Maurice Sendak, Louise Fitzhugh, Margaret Smart Brown and Arnold Lobel — or learn to our youngsters, had been queer however not out. On this shifting and private essay, Inexperienced explores what these writers had been attempting to say with their tender work and the way they spoke in a secret language to generations of youngsters who wanted them. Read more.
“The Man Turning European Fashion Into Something Raw and Real” by Nancy Hass
On this profile, Hass dissects what she calls the “clever, ragged quilt of concepts” belonging to the designer Jonathan Anderson, whose collections — for Loewe, the Spanish heritage model he took over in 2013, for his eponymous line JW Anderson and even for his ongoing collaboration with Uniqlo — rethink trend’s relationship to the standard crafts and silhouettes of earlier centuries. Read more.
“How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History” by Jesse Inexperienced
A few of the most fascinating and shifting artwork being made throughout all genres right now is by L.G.B.T.Q. people who find themselves refuting and reimagining the previous, unearthing homosexual and trans folks from earlier eras or writing their points and tales into historical past. With dignity and beauty, Inexperienced’s vital essay masterfully weaves dozens of inventive works collectively, trying backward to foretell the long run. Read more.