Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ll say this for Hudson Yards, the twenty-five-billion-dollar, twenty-eight-acre development that has risen, like some Tolkien tower, on the far West Side of Manhattan: it would be a great setting for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Instead of hosting back-yard barbecues for the Fourth of July, many New Yorkers gather in crowds throughout the city, to watch fireworks burst over the East River or to celebrate under…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert Plunket has some theories. Among them: why there are so many roundabouts in his adopted city of Sarasota, why lesbians don’t wear more jewelry, what’s really going on with Princess…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Christopher Munch has a sense of history. He started his independent filmmaking career in his mid-twenties, with “The Hours and Times” (completed in 1991), a drama about the brief but consequential…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 1938, the Nazis were circling like vultures around Berggasse 19, the Vienna home of Sigmund Freud. The German Reich had annexed Austria on March 13th, and Hitler…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The action in “The Pass” unfolds in a picturesque community on Long Island’s North Fork. The man in the water is already clearly uncomfortable when another man, standing on the shore,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The latest feature from Pixar Animation Studios, “Elemental,” about a fire creature and a water creature who fall in love, earned less than thirty million dollars at the U.S. box office…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The director Kelly Reichardt was in a state of irritation at a screening of her eighth and latest feature film, “Showing Up.” Certain she had come to the theatre early, Reichardt…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I was a child, war was a secret. And you certainly couldn’t call it war. It was known as the Troubles. Even its name was a kind of disguise. The…
