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2024 Is the Year Creators Took Over

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In early October, the No. 5 most popular podcast on Spotify, above the Times’ “The Daily” and just behind “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was a month-old show called “Talk Tuah.” Prior…

Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over all, perhaps because the camera is an unflinching diagnostician. The…

Nikki Giovanni’s Legacy of Black Love

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto the scene in the nineteen-sixties already fully formed—it was…

Are You Overreacting?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Along with three quarters of a million other people, I’m a member of r/AmIOverreacting, a forum on Reddit devoted to the problem of potentially freaking out too much. It’s a thriving…