Catching the Fire Bug
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…
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A Landmark Look at Family Dysfunction
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…
“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of desert people. We see…
Two African Migrants’ Fantastical, Harrowing Odyssey in “Io Capitano”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At one point in “Io Capitano,” a deeply moving drama about an odyssey through unknown lands, the Italian director Matteo Garrone undermines his own realism, to startlingly lyrical effect. Seydou (Seydou…
Can You Really Want an Oscar Too Much?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Valentine’s Day, Bradley Cooper strode onto the stage of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, flush with exuberance in his tux. “What we’re going to watch is an experiment,” he told…
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “All Clear”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The city is full of unexpected sights, but few are more endearing than a row of wobbly preschoolers, holding onto a rope while they walk with their teachers. For the cover…
Restaurant Review: Velvet Hauteur at Angie Mar’s Le B.
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. Diners are enveloped in velvet at the West…
A Girl’s Coming of Age in the Countryside of Her Childhood
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the photographer Juanita Escobar was nineteen years old, she left her native city of Cali, Colombia, to document a nature reserve in the country’s Eastern Plains, known as Los Llanos…
The Hair Does the Talking
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a boy, I got into the habit of watching my father eat. Our dinner table was round, and, on the nights when it was all of us, four kids and…
The Forced Erotic Whimsy of “Drive-Away Dolls”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new film directed by Ethan Coen, “Drive-Away Dolls,” is set in 1999. This makes sense, given that he and his wife, Tricia Cooke, wrote the script around that time. But…
