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Kadir Nelson’s “Soft-Serve”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the city heats up, many New Yorkers start to contemplate taking the subway to the end of the line, dreaming of the fresh ocean breeze and the frozen treats sold…

Hayek, the Accidental Freudian

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, 1977, on a still-sticky evening along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek boarded a flight bound for Chile and settled into his seat in first…

Richard Brody’s Best Movies of 2024 So Far

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The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Heinrich von Kleist, the German writer, once said that looking at a seascape by Caspar David Friedrich was like having your eyelids cut off. You were staring directly at death, at…

Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Love to the Max.” One day in late February of 2022, Amber Briggle received a phone call from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It was a caseworker,…

“Janet Planet”: Melt the Icebergs

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s some quietly ferocious, fiercely expressive dialogue in the playwright Annie Baker’s first feature, “Janet Planet,” and several moments of imaginative sublimity. The movie is a passionate and finely nuanced view…

The Right Side of Now

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The notion of having to one day repent for one’s trespasses gives even the godless a fright, we assume. A kicker like “You’ll regret this!” is redoubled by the certitude of…