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The Heretical Energy of “Is God Is”
Night rarely falls on the harsh, sun-bleached world of Aleshea Harris’s film “Is God Is,” a revenge parable about the breaking, or the burning, of the Black family. A...
The Star-Crossed Recluse Who Brought Astrology to the Masses
Goodman was born Mary Alice Kemery in Morgantown, West Virginia, on April 9, 1925. (The date was finally confirmed by a data collector who claims to have found her...
What Did “Lady Chatterley” Liberate?
On that matter, Cuthbertson does little more than note the problem—but then neither does anyone else. The First Amendment offers no real guidance. So the fight gets pushed into...
Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up
It is frustrating—and characteristic of his somewhat monomaniacal approach—that Fiedler does not consider, alongside the seduction plot, its obvious complement, the marriage plot. “Clarissa” follows a nobleman who rapes...
All That Glimmers at Ambassadors Clubhouse
The menu is vast, and somewhat conceptual—dishes are divided, at times, by type (a section for papads and chaat), but then also by size (“bitings,” or finger foods), or...
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Resists Stagnation
The lyrical direction of this record intrigued me. You are using language and imagery that could be directed toward another person, but it feels, to my ear, like it’s...
With “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” Hollywood Is Having a Zoomer-Horror Renaissance.
After stumbling upon the Backrooms that first night, Clark returns to them again and again, like a man obsessed. He becomes bent on mapping them out and uncovering their...
When the Religious Right Came for Martin Scorsese
In Mary Pratt Kelly’s “Martin Scorsese: A Journey,” the film’s director of photography likens the production to being in a war. Scorsese and his crew had fifty-eight days to...
The Knicks: The Only Game in Town