Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “This is the first time I’ve ever had one of these in my hand.” So declared Steven Spielberg, with visible awe and relief, when he accepted the Academy Award for Best…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I arrived at M.I.T. in the fall of 2004. I had just turned twenty-two, and was there to pursue a doctorate as part of something called the Theory of Computation group—a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With little fanfare, a complex and far-reaching personal documentary by Richard Linklater, “Hometown Prison,” dropped last week on the streaming service Max. It’s one of a trio of excellent films made…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The 2024 Academy Awards, which will take place on March 10th, will almost certainly extend the friendly feud that has existed between “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” ever since their same-day release last…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every villain gets an origin story, but in the case of Thea, the wedding guest from hell in Helen Oyeyemi’s newest novel, “Parasol Against the Axe,” her own mother wrote it.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On December 7th, at a safari resort in Kasane, Botswana, Ukraine briefed the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on an endangered national treasure. It wasn’t a monastery menaced…
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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. With spring showers…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before I left the city for the prairie, I never thought that I might be a pyromaniac. I’d never started a fire outside a hearth, or thrilled at seeing one burning…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1997, the British photographer Richard Billingham published “Ray’s a Laugh,” a landmark book that launched him from a shelf-stacking job at a Birmingham Kwik Save to the art-world stratosphere. The…
