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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good one. It’s a...
Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity
The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has written more than forty books, which have altogether sold more than a hundred and twenty million copies. (This week, a long-awaited adaptation of...
War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”
On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the Middle East. They sat on restaurant patios...
The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The rules could seem arcane,...
Life in Hitler’s Capital
According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights were turned off) and less food (beer, milk,...
How God Got So Great
What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there’s a reason it swept the world. Source link
A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
Vermont has long been a haven for idealists and iconoclasts, from the Putney Perfectionists of the nineteenth century to Depression-era homesteaders like Helen and Scott Nearing to the prickly...
The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
Will win: “One Battle After Another”Should win: “One Battle After Another”Should’ve been nominated: “Sirāt”Best DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”Chloé...
The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson
Early on, there are slow-moving but tense confrontations between Dodd and Freddie in which Hoffman and Phoenix appear to be competing over who can hold the camera longest before...
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman....
