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Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season
Calamitous Romance, Political SatireFashion is drama in some of the most prominent new releases, as in “Marc by Sofia” (March 20), a documentary by Sofia Coppola about Marc Jacobs,...
The Timeless Provocations of “Wuthering Heights” (the Novel)
A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell’s anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë’s ruthless text will always have the last word. Source link
The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement
In many cases, Indigenous enslavement adds new dimensions to familiar histories of the Americas—and to some of their most famous actors. Christopher Columbus sold hundreds of Indians into slavery...
“Hate Radio” Chucks the Transcript
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths. Source link
How Michael Pollan Expanded His Consciousness
The science and nature writer Michael Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears,” tackles one of humanity’s most enduring and intimate mysteries: consciousness. How does a tangle of neurons give...
When Do We Become Adults, Really?
Life stages became more standardized in the late nineteenth century, as mandatory schooling spread, and legal thresholds of adulthood were set in the twentieth century. In 1971, the Twenty-sixth...
What Fetishists Can Teach Us About Consumerism and Desire
A book of reportage on kinky subcultures describes how “deviant desire” can be transcendent —and completely mundane. Source link
Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies
But there are two categories of nonprofessionals whose place in the history of the art strikes me as particularly exalted. The first is directors who act, whether in their...
How the Epstein Scandal Took Over Our Reality
Broadly speaking, these scandals were contained within org charts. But, over the same period, there was an increasing awareness of how networks of knowledge and power could cross institutional...
