Music Video Breakdown: ‘Xanny’ by Billie Eilish

With a chart-topping album and an appearance at Coachella, 17-year-old Billie Eilish is emerging as the child star of our generation. And she’s doing it her own way, with whispery vocals, hyper-processed sounds, and a not-quite-goth aesthetic of neon hair dye and dark, baggy clothing.

This Year in Pop Culture: 1999

1999 was a year of good boy bands, big pants, and many Crimson editors’ births, but it was also a year of national anxiety, a year in which the Clinton presidency was coming to an inglorious end and Y2K was looming. Two decades later, it’s time to review the pop culture of 1999.

‘Truthpoint’ and The Mainstream Media’s Discovery of ‘Weird Twitter’

The humor of “weird Twitter” is surreal, ironic, and absurd. Even as brands and politicians begin to use memes to appeal to young people, this sort of humor remains unknown to most in the mainstream. That is, until recently.

Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Explores Poetry, Masculinity, and Politics in Middle America

Lerner is peering through the convex mirror of our discourse, but still writing —  writing towards a truer language on its other side.

Creative Writing Program Settles into New Lamont Library Space

After the creative writing program's move into its new Lamont space, Lamont has slowly begun to become a hub for the college creative writing community.

Ariana Grande’s ‘MONOPOLY’: Queer-baiting or Self-affirming?

Expect nothing more than entertainment and energy from “MONOPOLY,” and you won’t be disappointed.

Trance Legend Paul van Dyk Discusses Music, Education, and the Meaning of Life

Dozens of electronic music fans from Harvard and the Greater Boston Area filed into the Adams Lower Common Room on Feb. 20 to hear a talk from German trance music legend Paul van Dyk.

‘Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy’ Is A Heartbreaking and Youthful Confession

Titled “Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy,” Andres Cerpa's first collection of poetry has much to elegize: a father, a place, a family, a childhood.

‘Tha Carter V’: A Complex End to a Complex Career

With his final album, Lil Wayne sums up his career. It makes sense that “Tha Carter V” is as winding and unpredictable as the career on which it reflects.

"Tha Carter V" by Lil Wayne

‘On The Rvn’: Young Thug On The Attack

After two disappointing albums, many felt the rapper had passed his prime. With his new EP, “On The Rvn,” Thug proves his critics wrong.