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The Stories of #MeToo

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Art and the Politics of the Moment

Ta-Nehisi Coaches: It's really tough when you talk about art because the moment something happens in the political world and art jumps in. The thing is that art also is a beating commerce at this moment of sort of, we need stories to fit this template,. And then we do need these correctives to say, okay, the real people to whom things happen don't fit so many of our story templates. Helga Davis: Have you ever seen a performance or encountered an idea that made you feel like you've stepped through a portal to a new and fascinating country?

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