Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The decade of celestial adventure culminating in the 1969 moon walk has always presented both cinematic promise and danger. If space is the final frontier, space dramas are something like Westerns—not…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I was at a barbecue on the Fourth of July, eating burgers and drinking rum punch, watching store-bought fireworks belch and sizzle overhead, when Kendrick Lamar released the music video for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first thing I did when I got to Jerrod Carmichael’s apartment, a luxury loft in Chelsea with commanding views of the Hudson, was take my shoes off. He didn’t have…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2015, Josh Sisk, a freelance photographer in Baltimore, picked up a new Fujifilm X100S digital camera for thirteen hundred dollars. He wanted to use it on vacations and road trips,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the privileges and pleasures of working as a film critic is that people occasionally send me movies that aren’t yet available in the U.S. Some of them are very…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In September, 2016, when the Smithsonian’s crown-like National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) opened its doors to the public, its founding director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, might easily…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent sun-dappled afternoon, I met the thirty-eight-year-old writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham at a brasserie called Soutine, in London, not far from her home in North London. “This…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wobbly distinction between reality and artifice fascinates Nicolas Cage. The first time we encountered each other was in 2001, during the making of “Adaptation”—a film based on Charlie Kaufman’s struggle…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For someone who used to ride a school bus with Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Rashida Jones is remarkably earthbound. Growing up in Los Angeles, the daughter of the “Mod Squad”…
