Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The other week, I updated the operating system on my Mac laptop after putting the task off for many months. (One intractable flaw of technological devices: they never actually update overnight…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Hills and Mountains.” Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary short begins by discussing how the Soviet invasion of 1979 fundamentally altered life in Afghanistan. Over footage of people going about their day in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My son, who is at pains to tell you that he is not five but five and three-quarters, is obsessed with the future. He draws pictures of crystalline cityscapes crisscrossed by…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Summer is often a special, slower time—a respite from the frenetic activity of the rest of the year—that allows for spending more time with loved ones. For the cover of the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Summers in Kansas City in the nineteen-thirties were so hot that my mother’s father moved his bed into the porch, which opened off the living room and was screened on three…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story James Casebere photographs places that don’t exist. Or, rather, in lieu of photographing real places, he photographs ideas about them—their political inclinations, their psychic textures, their dream logics. Take, for instance,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story More often than not, when one of my friends mentions “Presumed Innocent,” they call the show by the name of its very famous lead actor. The recently concluded new Apple TV+…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Monday afternoon, a Bombardier BD-700 jet took off from a Las Vegas airport and landed in Paris at 11:11 A.M. Tuesday with Céline Dion inside. Hours later, the Canadian pop…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff 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. If you’re…
