An American Inspiration
Jon Batiste offers us something exceptional
in an exceptional time
Ayo and Her Weird and Specific Things
Ayo Edebiri talks with novelist Yaa Gyasi about getting off social media, how acting is like a kid, and a “freaky” George Saunders.
“Yes, Chef” Victor Blanchet Always Knew He Would Be Here
The 25-year-old culinary phenomn taking Paris by storm.
Malin Fezehai’s Worldview
An award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker offers us a glimpse into the lives of the women she has encountered–women she has captured with her camera so that we may encounter them, too
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, A Soliloquy
The critically acclaimed and publicly scrutinized star of this summer’s West End production of “Romeo & Juliet” introduces herself employing a familiar form; using the framework of a soliloquy, she questions the world around her.
A Complicated Hope: A First Time Voter on the Decision Before Her
Weeks away from casting her first vote in a presidential election, a young Black Harvard undergraduate student writes an essay that won’t be graded, contemplating what “hope” means to her.
André 3000’s One Man Show
André 3000 is back. With a solo album none of us could have anticipated. Over email, on Zoom, and then in a small sun-lit studio near his home, André talks with Donovan X. Ramsey about where he’s been, his unexpected artistic evolution, and only doing what “feels good.”
It’s A Feeling. It’s All of Us.
Kendrick Lamar talks to Sarah Osei about Ghana, going silent and being more than the greatest.
Alva in Three Dimensions
The 2024 Model of the Year nominee and “face of” more campaigns than one can name sits down with her partner to discuss home, personhood, and going back to “self”.
The Center
In conversation, Marcus Cuffie, son of photographer, the late Steven Cuffie, reflects on his father’s work and the importance of photographing “the center”. Featuring a collection of images illustrating what life looks like at the center of a city, with intimate portraits of Baltimore’s women and children, shot in Baltimore between 1974 and 1986.
Thelonious Stokes, an Introduction
In his own words and works, oil painter, Thelonious Stokes, describes his path to painting and the purpose and meanings that drive him
