Jason Allen Ashlock

Peter Beinart, Omar El Akkad, and Chris Hedges deliver dispatches from Gaza, where the West’s moral fiction has collapsed.

In post-monument Richmond, Virginia, a new mural series turns trust into a public art, inviting dialogue as the architecture of civic repair.

Julien Baker & TORRES, both architects of raw, emotionally intricate songwriting, have thrown themselves into country music to create a new sound that is authentic, direct, and emotionally honest.

Silicon Valley's most pious optimists are disinterested in the future being a horizon, instead focusing on their grand ambitions for AI, space, and humanity's unborn trillions, with some critics arguing that this focus on longtermism and expansion serves to justify their power in the present.

Cookbooks are thriving despite the rise of digital media, with Koreaworld being a prime example of a cookbook that celebrates Korean culture worldwide and provides expert curation of stories, ingredients, and recipes.

Evan Ratliff's podcast Shell Game explores the potential of AI to create digital twins that can fool customer service representatives, scammers, therapists, and loved ones, highlighting the absurdity and exploitation of the system.

In her book, "Get the Picture," Bianca Bosker exposes the elitist barriers of the art world and why they were created.

Ten years after an indifferent review, Lucius’s Wildewoman is re-released, proving its timeless appeal and the band’s unrivaled talent for genre-defying music and vocal magic.

Long before Midjourney and OpenAI's Dall-E, Harold Cohen’s AARON, revived and running at the Whitney Museum of American Art, showed a more collaborative form of AI art.

Erika Howsare ventures through centuries, across cultures and geographies and peoples. Her hospitable manner and magnetic subject draws us along through research hidden beneath easy prose.

An intimate, athletic performance in Zurich displays the pianist’s brilliant, unorthodox style found on his latest album.

Shane Campbell-Staton's well-intentioned storyline is riddled with inexcusable inaccuracies and gross (though convenient) oversimplifications.

In his book, "Blood and the Machine," Merchant jogs our memory of past technological upheavals in an attempt to arm us for the tyrannical change he foresees.

Tales of love, loss, random threads, and the inscrutable mystery of bureaucracy.

An actor tours Italy in search of the soul of a nation, a design pioneer rethinks the impact of his work, and a photographer displays a knack for unsettling placemaking.

An examination of insidious denialist propaganda, lessons from the world’s longest scientific study of happiness, and a new definition of mental and physical limitations.

Here is what we are reading, watching, and listening to.

Here's what we're reading, watching, and listening to.