Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s tedious to talk about the weather, but “All We Imagine as Light” compels me to at least attempt an exception. From the moment the movie begins, on a warm night…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story By the end of Donald Trump’s campaign for a second Presidency, he was part of a package deal. The Trump ticket represented not only Trump and his running mate, J. D.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Goodbye, Morganza.” “It was a piece of heaven,” Agnes Marshall Blackwell says about the house she grew up in, situated in Morganza, Maryland. She recalls a little white house, surrounded…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people whose candidate…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it. The two genres converge to startling effect in “Emilia…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Pickles are a dollar each. Sugar-free cough drops go for a nickel. The sub special with three meats and two kinds of cheese is just $5.50. Only the newborn doesn’t have…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new movie “Conclave,” faithfully adapted from Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, tells the story of a vexed papal election by depicting the Vatican of melodramatic legend: dark corridors, footfalls, sotto-voce conversations;…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The walls in the dining room at Bridges…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be apocryphal. It…
