Ian Marcus Corbin

The furore around the Teeth author’s latest short story shows the risk of keeping your politics slightly to yourself.

The Canadian rapper’s response to Pusha-T on his new album is nimble and reasonable.

It’s almost impossible to imagine the President praising a book or a person or an idea, or really anything, that hasn’t been approved by a lot of people.

The president may be averse to the arts, but he’s hardly shaking the republic to its core.

You’ve probably heard that we’re in a boom time for the art business, breaking sales records as fast as we can make them. This might seem strange, in a time of such political uncertainty, but look closer: the art world is a fascinating canary in our cultural/social/economic coal mine, an odd liminal zone where profound … Read more

By ceasing its promotion of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music, Spotify aims to show its users that they are headed towards the moral promised land.

If Trump is rotten from the core, what the hell does that say about the popular culture we’ve all let flourish in the past few decades?