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What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Photograph by Erich Karnberger / Getty To have or not to have, that is the question. The problem with having is obvious when looking around at the many shelves for books…
Trump’s Mug Shot Is His True Presidential Portrait
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s not really a victory for anybody, this photograph, but lots of us will insist on reading it that way. Before it ever existed—when it was only a twinkle in the…
The Cosmic Comedy of “The Plot Against Harry”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Michael Roemer’s second professional feature, “The Plot Against Harry,” from 1969, should have become an instant classic—of American Jewish cinema, of gangster movies, of film comedy, and of bold creativity on…
The Failed Real-Estate Porn of “And Just Like That . . .”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story An episode late in “And Just Like That . . .” ’s second season introduced a previously unthinkable scenario: that Carrie could sell her Upper East Side brownstone apartment, one of the few constants in…
The Virtues and the Sins of Big-Time High-School Football
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2012, Sports Illustrated published a feature about an intriguing new phenomenon: a high-school football powerhouse that was not, strictly speaking, a high school. The Eastern Christian Honey Badgers, as the…
A Grandmother’s Salt and Pepper Shakers Take on a New Life
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” is an artifact of family connection, an illustration of the way that objects can hold memories, and a portrait of how the act of sustained…
Robbie Robertson and the Greatest Songs Never Finished
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wounded sense of what might have been that’s hovered over the story of the Band since Robbie Robertson walked away from the group in 1976 swelled miserably this month with…
What Kind of Artist Was Wayne Shorter?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One thing that emerges in Dorsay Alavi’s three-part documentary “Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity” (out on Amazon Prime this Friday) is that the late, great jazz saxophonist and composer was, not to…
A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The old couple lies belly up on a white duvet, linked at the hands like a pair of chained paper dolls. Their slack faces have the look of Greek masks: slits…
