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Most journalists will say they’re not good at mathematics, or, as our U.K. friends put it, “the maths.” In high school I went to the state...
Käthe Kollwitz’s memorial to Karl Liebknecht honors a grief that political disagreement cannot diminish.
Stay in one job long enough and you acquire tenure. People know what you can do, or what you have done, and give you the benefit of the doubt. You can...
Sean Harrison was a musician before he became a journalist, and he kept writing songs while earning his living with other kinds of sentences. The...
Ordered destroyed, Murnau’s ‘Nosferatu’ survived to haunt cinema — and returns to the big screen at AMFA.
Al Topich, known to film audiences as Xander Topich, returns to directing with ‘Stalling’ and finds the rewards in making movies together.
Years ago, when I flew more often, a congressman would occasionally turn up on the same flight to Washington. Leaving the hometown airport, he sat in...
"Yikes."
Stephen King’s first novel remains one of his strangest and most formally adventurous — a fractured story of humiliation, catastrophe and the...
The night is dark and full of terrors.
Last Saturday, Arkansas led Tennessee 14-10 entering the fourth quarter, which was enough for some of y'all to begin contemplating a pleasant evening....
Brad Williams and Richard Thompson know what to leave in; recordings from Todd Snider and John Prine let us hear what remained to be decided.
A complete collection invites another look at the filmmaker whose images became part of how we see the world.
It's my first one today.
Years ago, I stood in an editor's doorway explaining why it would be a big deal if Frederick Wiseman came to the Hot Springs Documentary Film...
On her remarkable new album, the songwriter follows people through grief, addiction and the consequences of their choices.
A $600 putter can remove a complication from your stroke. Doubt is harder to engineer away.
I have become a boss, a development I had spent a fair portion of my working life trying to prevent.
Fifty years after ‘Interview With the Vampire,’ Anne Rice’s New Orleans still offers a seductive view of immortality — and a long account of...
I don't mind that college football players are being paid. I mind that we have constructed an elaborate apparatus for paying them while continuing to...
In the inaugural episode of “Sessions,” we talk with two Arkansas writers receiving major literary honors this year: Jeffrey Condran, winner of...
Graphic novelist Nate Powell talks “Diana,” the rhythms of comics and what remains of the punk ethic as an artist grows older.
With ‘Diana,’ Nate Powell completes an Arkansas trilogy whose restless art and intricate storytelling explore music, memory and the difficulty of...
Americans claim a peculiar prerogative: the right to become someone else.
Reissues from Elvis Costello, Hole, Coleman Hawkins and the Beatles offer another chance to hear what made the records matter in the first place.
His technique gives objects the authority of evidence: this existed, this had weight, this occupied space.
Albert Bloch was the American in the Blue Rider.
I am fascinated by a man on the Internet who calls himself José Monkey. His shtick is that he can take 15 or 20 seconds of video shot by someone in...
The 35th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival looks at what cameras preserve, what they change and how nonfiction filmmakers make sense of a world...
I am fascinated by a man on the Internet who calls himself José Monkey. His shtick is that he can take 15 or 20 seconds of video shot by someone in...
In Melissa Cowper-Smith’s handmade-paper painting, weather becomes memory, atmosphere becomes matter and beauty takes on an ominous weight.
“North by Northwest” is about the dangerous instability of appearances, made by a director who spent his career demonstrating how eagerly...
An old column returns under the name its writer wanted all along, looking beyond recipes to the pleasures, stories and dangers we pour into a glass.
In 1548, Martin Guerre stole some grain from his father, with whom he already had an uneasy relationship. Disgraced, Guerre abandoned his wife and...
I was walking toward the showers after my workout when I heard a commotion and a thump. People ran past me. I did not see the man fall. There were a...
I watch more sports than some people who describe themselves as serious fans, which is a contradiction that has crept into my life without my noticing...
My interest was piqued when I saw a dubious poll naming Casey's pizza the best in Northwest Arkansas.
We like the idea of nice things, but not the expense, inconvenience and obligation that come with keeping them. Then we are genuinely surprised when...
In her remarkable first collection of short fiction, Little Rock writer Hope Coulter considers the stories people inherit, the ones they invent and...
When I was 7, my father gave me a cut-down 7-iron and showed me how to wrap my hands around the hard leather grip and interlock the little finger of...
The Constitution of the United States of America may be the most enthusiastically defended unread document in history, aside from the terms-of-service...
Tasjan, who will play Little Rock's White Water Tavern on Thursday, has never seemed particularly interested in remaining inside whatever box the...
"Five Questions" is an invitation to an articulate person to think out loud. "Get Over It, Underdog," Nashville singer-songwriter and guitarist Aaron...
She calls it "light" Parkinson's.
Mark Lynas’ “Six Minutes to Winter” asks why we stopped worrying about nuclear war. Arkansans have particular reason to remember what can go wrong.
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale, screening Thursday at Little Rock’s CALS Ron Robinson Theater, has grown into an essential film of this...
There was a time when we thought we knew what an amateur is.
Artificial intelligence can give everyone a song. It might also eliminate the ordeal that gives music meaning.
It was 25 years ago today that Karen and I escaped from Canada.
The records considered here have little in common but persistence.
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