IT HAS BEEN illuminating to watch SZA navigate interviews around the release of her sophomore album, SOS, like she’s not quite sure what to make of the project beyond being happy to have expunged the emotions it documents. She seems more interested in expressing that trying to create on a professional level while being buffeted by tragedy is a truly daunting task than in dishing about the lyrics, which must’ve been hard-won. “I’ve buried so many people in my life you would think that I would be used to it or just have a threshold,” the artist born Solána Imani Rowe told Rolling Stone in 2020. Now she’s rating her sanity at 6.7 on an album whose cover art mimics a paparazzi shot of Princess Diana perched on a diving board in the last week of her life, seeking tranquility but naggingly aware of always being watched. SOS is processing loss and fame and pain and desire at the center of millions of ogling eyes. Five years after the slow-burn success of her breakthrough debut, Ctrl, the Top Dawg Entertainment superstar has turned in a follow-up that matches its predecessor’s rawness while speaking to multiplying difficulties in romance and on the world’s stage, where praise for her art meets gossip about her body—and body count.
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Trapped in Time
A woman relives the same day in a stunning Danish novel.
Polyphonic City
A SOFT, SHIMMERING beauty permeates the images of Mumbai that open Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. For all the nighttime bustle on display-the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos-Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.
Lear at the Fountain of Youth
Kenneth Branagh's production is nipped, tucked, and facile.
A Belfast Lad Goes Home
After playing some iconic Americans, Anthony Boyle is a beloved IRA commander in a riveting new series about the Troubles.
The Pluck of the Irish
Artists from the Indiana-size island continue to dominate popular culture. Online, they've gained a rep as the \"good Europeans.\"
Houston's on Houston
The Corner Store is like an upscale chain for downtown scene-chasers.
A Brownstone That's Pink Inside
Artist Vivian Reiss's Murray Hill house of whimsy.
These Jeans Made Me Gay
The Citizens of Humanity Horseshoe pants complete my queer style.
Manic, STONED, Throttle, No Brakes
Less than six months after her Gagosian sölu show, the artist JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLAND lost her gallery and all her money and was preparing for an exhibition with two the biggest living American artists.
WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT BRIGHT PINK MEAT THAT LASTS FOR WEEKS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
Deli Meat Is Rotten
