Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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The Pure Imagination of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander March 18, 2025
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander incites questions. For his defender, it’s “Where’d he go?” For the hoops curious, it might be “Yeah, what’s his deal? He’s from Canada?” For his haters, “Is he just a free throw merchant?” For the casual fan, “Is he the MVP?” ...
On Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Anthropologists” March 05, 2025
Early on in Ayşegül Savaş’s third novel, The Anthropologists, the narrator, Asya, remembers a college professor’s advice to consider the mundane routines of daily life as subject for anthropological study. A young documentarian expat living in an unn...
The Hackman Connection March 03, 2025
The death of the actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95 has left behind a whole raft of iconic and legendary roles, from Clyde Barrow’s brother (in Bonnie and Clyde) to supervillain Lex Luthor. Yet for many, the part that will never be beaten is that of...
The Way of Shai February 14, 2024
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is universally regarded as the NBA’s most fashionable player. It would be enough to be appreciated as such by peers and fans, but it’s another thing entirely to be named GQ’s most stylish man of the year in 2022, full stop. La...
What’s Wrong With the Intellectuals? February 13, 2024
Nietzsche’s meaning here is open-ended regarding the intellectual as human being. To make things simpler is a good, even necessary, activity in human life. In this sense, we are all thinkers. In our daily lives, we turn the endlessly varied and nearl...
The Winding Passage Back to Plato February 07, 2024
Two years ago, Glenn Ellmers caused both the mouth-foaming Left and the surrendered Right to soil their undies by arguing that radicals have changed America so significantly that the Right must no longer speak of conservation but of counterrevolution...
Swimming Against the Stream February 02, 2024
December 11, 2023, marked the tenth anniversary of the death at age 64 of the poet, essayist, and translator Regina (pronounced with a hard “g”) Derieva. February 7, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of her birth. Her faithful widower, the iconographe...
Truman Capote’s Next Act February 01, 2024
A century after his birth, the novelist, screenwriter and playwright Truman Capote is having a moment. He is the pivotal character in the new Ryan Murphy period drama Feud: Capote vs the Swans, based on the bestselling Laurence Leamer book, Capote’s ...
