Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Thursday was a typically atypical day at Burning Man—the last before a series of atypically atypical days. It began, for me, with a bike ride with some friends to the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Paul Schrader’s second feature, “Hardcore,” from 1979, is his version of John Ford’s “The Searchers.” Both movies are dramas of an isolated, stoic, rigidly principled man who takes it upon himself…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of my seminal movie experiences was a college class taught by Gilberto Perez, around 1977, in political cinema, focussing on John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Sergei Eisenstein. At nearly fifty…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A room without books is like a body without a soul, and the same is true of a city without an independent cinema. If New York has survived the rise of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in Hulu’s “This Fool,” a Los Angeles man named Julio (Chris Estrada) indulges in a fantasy only he would find seductive. It’s the night of his thirty-first birthday—a milestone he’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Join us! See the full lineup and purchase tickets. For the twenty-fourth year, the pages of The New Yorker will come to life for three days in New York City. The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In August, 2021, when tens of thousands of government officials, interpreters, and Westernized élites fled Afghanistan following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, they were joined by nearly the entire foreign press…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This is drawn from “This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What do we lose when we lose a pianist? The question is on my mind today, the anniversary of the death of the German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt, who succumbed…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I heard on Saturday that Jimmy Buffett had died, I wrote a condolence e-mail to his longtime friend Thomas McGuane, the novelist. McGuane, who is married to Buffett’s sister Laurie,…
