ARTS

Photo of woman with abstract flower in background

Thank you, bell hooks

A reflection on the intellectual giant and the legacy she left behind
Front cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Celebrating Black authors

Brought to you by BLVCK
Illustration of a mother holding her daughter reading a spoken word poem into a microphone by reading from a phone

“My Mama Said” so “Sorry in Advance”

Poetry for the woman who taught me to be bright
Scrapbook-style graphic of characters in "She's Gotta Have It"

Artists rewrite history

What Spike Lee gets right and wrong in his show, She's Gotta Have It
Illustration with a girl reading a book next to a stack of books, a cup of tea, and a cat

Book it to the library

I read 182 books last year and I have some opinions for your 2022 reading
Illustration of people wearing masks sitting in a movie theatre

Illness and escape: blockbuster release during Omicron

Ticket sales for a superhero movie surged alongside the emergent variant
Artistic depiction of three people holding shut a door with a fire blazing in the room behind it and the number 2021 pressed against the window

2021 (The Strand’s Version)

The Strand reflects on a bittersweet year
logo of GLAM club that features illustration of a painting easel with paintbrushes, books, an architectural pillar, and notes written on a piece of paper alongisde a pencil

On creating opportunities instead of chasing them

How the GLAM club was founded
Black and white still from film "Eraserhead" of Jack Nance talking to two other characters

You don’t know Jack

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Jack Nance lives on
Photo of Eric Walters holding dog that is wearing reindeer antler headband in lap

Interview with Eric Walters

Canadian author Eric Walters discusses challenges, perseverance, and hope in his childhood, work, and life