Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How do you reacquaint yourself with the country you’re from? Until he was twelve, the photographer Adam Ferguson lived in Dubbo, Australia, a small city about five hours’ drive from Sydney.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s a Francophile summer in New York, with a major Claire Denis rediscovery and a Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective already in the books and an Agnès Varda-centric series under way, but the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last month, after I published an article about the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate J. D. Vance and his fixation on the traditional nuclear family, I received an e-mail from Donna Morel, an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shauna LyonGoings On editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Beyond the fade…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With classic filmmakers, a biography is a peek behind the scenes, whether a debunking or an astonishment—a view of the human element that made grand achievements possible. With modern filmmakers, whose…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like most estuaries, the Chesapeake Bay varies greatly in salinity levels from season to season and year to year. Rainstorms and snowmelt in the spring can make the water fresher or,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We live in a world of virtual reality, but not the kind suggested by Apple’s Vision Pro goggles, the Meta Quest, or any of the other bulky V.R. headsets now for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I admit that I don’t usually like photography of dancers. It makes them look like buildings—solid, structured, and immovable. It stops time, the essence of dance, and freezes the dancer in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For an entertainer, a casino gig is a double-edged sword. It can be a lucrative booking, a sign that you’ve entered a rarefied tier of bankability. But casino crowds can be…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early two-thousands, Martin Gurri, a media analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, began considering the political implications of the Internet. Gurri worked in the Open Source Center, a part…
