Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One day in the mid-two-thousands, a teen-ager named Amy waited to hear the voice of God. She was sitting in a youth Bible-study group, surrounded by her peers, and losing patience.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How long can Emily possibly stay in Paris? The Netflix series in question débuted way back in October of 2020, in the benighted early days of the pandemic, when it seemed…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Incident.” The opening of Bill Morrison’s short film “Incident” is silent. Security footage shows a section of a Chicago street on what looks to be an ordinary summer afternoon. A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As incubators of pop stardom go, the Disney corporation has, rather unexpectedly, outlasted around two decades of dramatic shifts in the music industry. While “The Mickey Mouse Club”—a show that helped…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I read “Middlemarch” for the first time during my sophomore year of college. I didn’t get it. Why would Dorothea, a young and intelligent woman, marry that annoying old man? How…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I was growing up, the Sunday comics section of the local newspaper included a visual illusion similar to a Magic Eye. It looked like a circle made up of other,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Where has Charles Bell been all my life? Or, rather, where have his recordings been? Why did I only find out about them now? How have I only now, fifty-plus years…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Summer can seem as though it will go on forever. Then, come August, there’s suddenly a chill in the air, and you realize that the unbearably hot days are coming to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1996, when Gillian Welch and her partner, the guitarist David Rawlings, released “Revival,” their début album, they’ve been making tense and eerie acoustic music about desire and devastation, the sacred…
