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PS Picks: The ‘Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today’ Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Letter From Qaanaaq, Greenland: The Man Who Listens for Nuclear Tests Above the Arctic
Svend Erik had not intended to spend the last 37-odd years of his life permanently in Qaanaaq, stewarding critical data through decades of changes in computing and communications technologies, but he had fallen in love.
Field Notes: Inside a Ravaged Building in Northern Iraq
Haji Ali, Iraq: A view of the village—which has been ravaged by battles against ISIS—through one of its destroyed buildings.
Sarah Jones’ Theater of Resistance
The playwright and actress' one-woman shows are deeply political—but she isn't here to preach.
PS Picks: The Conversation Around the Gun-Toting Christian Extremists of Ubisoft’s ‘Far Cry 5’
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Save American Poetry, Read a Cowboy
At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, readers and writers celebrate the lyrical beauty of rural existence.
Letter From Stone Mountain, Georgia: Reclaiming Stone Mountain From the Alt-Right
How Stone Mountain—the world's largest and most immovable Confederate monument—could become a battlefield where neo-Confederates from across the country make their last stand.
PS Picks: Black Panther’s Hollywood Breakout
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
What Demolition Derby Reveals About Small-Town Politics and the Trump Apocalypse
There is no single storyline to demolition derby. Unlike a football game, there is no ground to take, no points to score. There is only mayhem and survival.