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Pause at One Hundred Miles per Hour
Can liminal-space therapy be a thing? I think many Ukrainians need that. Source link
One of Chantal Akerman’s Best Films Is in Legal Limbo
Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers...
The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist
The judges for the category this year are Kate Daniels, author of the recent poetry collection “In the Months of My Son’s Recovery”; Terrance Hayes, whose collection “Lighthead” won...
Why Are Liberals Returning to Elon Musk’s X?
On September 1st, the author and statistician Nate Silver wrote a post on X diagnosing a new condition: “Blueskyism,” so named for the decentralized social network that has emerged...
“Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths
As grateful as I am to the director Matt Nadel for making “Cashing Out,” a vital and outstanding film about a terrible time, it also made me angry—angry about...
Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye
How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer...
Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
In the lead-up to the Minnesota State Fair, a twelve-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, the event’s organizers release a highly anticipated...
Kadir Nelson’s “The Soloist”
When the news is especially distressing, it can be easy to feel like art is futile; that you should, instead, focus your attention on all the suffering in the...
The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy
In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the well-tailored suits of Italy’s economic boom, between nostalgia...
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
And when you saw it later, how’d you feel?Well, that’s something, going back to what we were talking about before: I think everybody uses fashion in different ways, and,...
