Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark,” James Salter wrote in his 1975 novel, “Light Years.” An encounter with a single “slender” line of writing,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch Andy Sarjahani’s film “The Smallest Power.” In “The Smallest Power,” the filmmaker Andy Sarjahani captures the power of an individual act of resistance amid the chaos of nationwide disorder. The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Francesca Woodman did not come by her artistic precocity by accident. Her father, George, was an abstract painter. Her mother, Betty, was a ceramicist. Both made clear to Francesca that art…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story HBO’s “The Sympathizer,” which traces the diasporic aftershocks of the Vietnam War, establishes its pitch-black humor and moral complexity almost immediately, with a scene set in Saigon days before its fall.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s one thing to make nuns funny. It’s another to have a nun cheerily explain the difference between mortal and venial sin, unveil her list of who’s slated for Hell (Zsa…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Parents aren’t the only caretakers who have to negotiate their children’s relationship to screens—some pet owners also use apps to keep their animals occupied. For the cover of the April 22…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1961, Wilbert Rideau, a nineteen-year-old with an eighth-grade education, robbed a bank in Lake Charles, the small Louisiana town where he lived. During a botched getaway, he killed a teller…
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 in-box. Before opening Corima, in a moody, rustic space…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Once upon a time, in New York, we measured our lives in Richard Foreman productions. For decades, the crocus of our theatrical spring was the widespread wheat-pasting of his black-and-white posters…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture Editor 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. Kirsten Dunst…
