Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk as vigorously…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The chef duo Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about a golem made of clay and summoned to life, through ritual…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Wednesday evening, when the new Czar of All the Arts, Donald Trump, went to see “Les Misérables”—which is, we are told, along with “Cats,” and “Evita,” a favored musical of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photographer Luis Corzo was six years old when he was kidnapped. Early on the morning of April 18, 1996, armed members of a small gang forced their way into the…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering significant…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’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 inbox. If a dance isn’t performed for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nude but for white underwear, Diane Arbus regards herself in a full-length mirror, which slants to the right. One hand hovers above her swollen belly; the other grips the tripod leg…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new…
