Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary people organized…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. There’s a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “I’m Not a Robot.” “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away at their laptops. Walls of windows…
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;…
