Bada That’s the thing that boomers, Gen Xers, millennials, and Gen Zers can agree on
Saturday Night Live he sucks now. That “now” is difficult, however. For 60-year-olds, the show may be a result of the apparent disappearance of the Belushi-Chase-Radner years. For forty years, it is any period after Poehler-Fey-Rudolph. Until recently, this claim was rooted in the combination of the wounded ego. It’s hard to laugh at people who weren’t born yet when you were in high school
them They were in high school and on Saturday night they had to do comedy or discover the most important things, such as sleeping. But even after the verdict, many disillusioned fans continue to suffer from what writer Willy Staley calls
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad.
All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. In an unprecedented, strange, and chaotic year, we’ve leaned on writers’ reflections and commentaries on the world around us to help us make sense of moments, of our lives. We revisited a wide range of arts and culture stories featured by the team this year and selected eight favorites that resonated with us.
The New York Times Magazine)
I’ve always loved how Teju Cole observes and moves through our world: a flâneur of modern life, always with a notebook or a camera in hand. Here, we follow Cole on a pilgrimage to Italy as he chases the life of Caravaggio, an artist (and fugitive and murderer) whose emotionally charged, often violent scenes and chiaroscuro technique I studied closely in my AP Art History class. In Rome and Milan, Cole revisits Caravaggio’s paintings “to learn the truth about doom” to sit