Blue
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Why Are We So Obsessed With Blue? February 28, 2025
“SUPPOSE I WERE to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color,” reads the first line of Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets,” her 2009 book-length lyric essay about the color blue. “Bluets” — the title refers to the delicate, diminutive wildflower bu...
Welcome to the Paige Bueckers February 27, 2025
It’s hard to stand out on the frenetic streets of SoHo in New York City, but on a frigid afternoon in December, the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team bus—navy blue, emblazoned with the school’s Siberian husky logo, and taking up four ...
Mike White’s Magnum Lotus February 25, 2025
Mike White was feeling blue when the email arrived. It was the first year of the pandemic, and White – a screenwriter and actor best known for his script for Richard Linklater’s 2003 feel-good blockbuster School of Rock, starring Jack Black – was dri...
It’s a Strange World, Isn’t It? February 14, 2025
I have this superstition that something bad will happen if I press “SKIP INTRO” on the credits of Twin Peaks. This is not really out of fealty to David Lynch (to be honest, I watch movies on my iPhone all the time); nor do I identify as a particularl...
Imani Perry’s Blue Notes February 06, 2025
The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at gunpoint. ...
Symptomatic Reading February 05, 2025
YOU CAN HEAR the subway rumbling under the psych ward. I’m not sure which train; the hospital’s around 33rd Street and 1st, so it must be near the water. Smoke curls up from a large vat across the courtyard, luminous in the blue night. The hospital r...
