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The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The second hour of “Gone with the Wind,” the bold, almost brazenly romantic Civil War epic that won ten Academy Awards, is largely a portrait of hell. “The skies...
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The Best-Selling Novelist Kaveh Akbar Leans Into His Poetic Roots
Kaveh Akbar may be best known for his début novel, “Martyr!” (a finalist for the National Book Award), but he began his career as a poet. Recently, he joined...
A Young Girl Questions Wearing a Head Scarf in “Rizoo”
When the filmmaker Azadeh Navai was five years old, her mother took her to have her photo taken for an I.D. And, before she knew it, a scarf was...
Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger”
For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt...
Catherine Breillat’s Unsettling Cinema of Desire
In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with their parents near the seaside. The older sister, Elena, is...
The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish...
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say:Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something...
What We See in Lauren Sanchez’s Cleavage
Remember a few years back when boobs were declared over? The data points supporting this claim were tenuous but nonetheless of some note. There was the Pornhub study from...
Liza Minnelli’s Desire to Touch
The avant-garde company Heartbeat Opera is engaging in another innovative game of source-text telephone, this time with a new iteration of “Salome.” The original draws from Oscar Wilde’s eponymous...
The Real-Life Drama of “Dying”
In observational documentaries, one important thing tends to be left unspoken: namely, why the films’ subjects let filmmakers embed in their lives. Without knowing what kind of visibility and...
