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The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even if Mozart’s name and a quote from Beaumarchais’s play “The Marriage of Figaro” didn’t feature in the credits of “The Rules of the Game,” this 1939 film by Jean Renoir…

Worlds in Rooms

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with a painting,…

How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might…