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Wednesday, March 6, 2019: Zadie Smith, Mosha Lundström Halbert and more

Today on q: author and essayist Zadie Smith, q online columnist Elamin Abdelmahmoud, artist and writer Nate Harrison breaks down the history of the Amen drum break, q fashion columnist Mosha Lundström Halbert.
Author and essayist Zadie Smith, '60s funk and soul band The Winstons, Thierry Mugler, Les Insectes collection, haute couture spring/summer 1997. (Dominique Nabokov, Wikipedia, Patrice Stable)

Today on q, with guest host Jael Richardson:

  • Author and essayist Zadie Smith talks about her non-fiction writing and what it's taught her about the act of trying to make sense of a chaotic world. 
  • Our online columnist Elamin Abdelmahmoud helps us understand a hoax urban legend for the digital age: the Momo Challenge.
  • Artist and writer Nate Harrison breaks down the history of the Amen drum break.
  • Our fashion columnist Mosha Lundström Halbert discusses a new retrospective of French designer Thierry Mugler's work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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