Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, as the pandemic was loosening its grip on the world, and as I started to recover from the aftereffects of a botched childhood circumcision that had returned to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch J. J. Kandel’s film, “Sparring Partners.” “How do people meet each other?” the director J. J. Kandel asked me, bluntly. “How do you meet people?” The most common answers might…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One day last year in Paris, I went to the Musée de Cluny, a temple to the tactile esoterica of medieval France. I remember seeing braids of wooden hair, a marble…
The real estate market in Tbilisi, Georgia, has experienced significant growth in recent years, positioning itself as an attractive investment destination. With a focus on the primary market, Avezor, a prominent real estate agency in Georgia, serves both new developments…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The subject of “Civil War” is so clickbaity that it’s easy to forget that it’s a movie, with the form and the aesthetics of a movie, rather than a think piece…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour. Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque,” from 1814, bestows her with an anatomically…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Of all the ingredients in my pantry, my jar of vanilla is my most treasured. It’s not the ordinary kind of vanilla that you can find at any grocery store; I’m…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I often receive condolence-type calls, e-mails, and texts about Haiti. Many of these messages are in response to the increasingly dire news in the press, some of which echoes what many…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At a glance, not much appears to connect Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” and Theda Hammel’s “Stress Positions.” Baig’s feature, her third as a writer and director (after “1 Night” and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Gifts from ancestors take the darndest forms. Mine included a tamarind tree, the tallest and most magnificent in our yard. My grandfather’s grandfather—a tall, corpulent Indian, prone to indulging in fine…
