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“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
Not long into “The Brutalist,” the director Brady Corbet plunges us into darkness—a darkness that, although neither formless nor void,…
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Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link
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Criterion Channel’s Thrillingly Evolving Roster
Richard Brody Staff writer The Criterion Channel, the foremost moveable source for art-house and repertory cinema, thrillingly expands its…
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Family Discord and Holiday Music in “Cult of Love” and “No President”
The first image of Leslye Headland’s family drama,“Cult of Love,” on Broadway at the Hayes, looks like a Christmas card. Behind a gauzy…
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Paul Valéry Would Prefer Not To
One way of being a modernist writer is to pay attention to the most saliently modern objects and experiences. So it is that Proust…
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The Meditative Organ Soundscapes of Kali Malone
“All Life Long,” the title of the most recent album by the composer and organist Kali Malone, is taken from a poem by the British…
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Hilton Als on Understanding Difference in “Alok”
Hilton Als Staff writer There are a lot of ghosts in the exhibition “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas” (through…
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The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School
One of the more reliable chemical reactions in European culture occurs when particles of German mental matter enter Italy. Suddenly,…
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Dalí, Basquiat, Haring, and Hockney at Luna Luna
Jackson Arn The New Yorker’s art critic I don’t know what Werner Herzog is up to these days, but if he’s between projects, I humbly…
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The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art
If you remember anything about this painting, may it be that the dog’s name is Noble. The black poodle in the bottom left greets us as a…
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The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.
Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In…
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What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular…
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“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour.…
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“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
It may be bright and getting brighter on Broadway these days, but Off Broadway the shadows are lengthening. Desperation-level real-estate…
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A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
E pluribus unum might be the proper political aspiration for a large and multifarious country, but when it comes to the novel people tend…
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Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really…
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Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Hilton Als Staff writer It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I first saw the great director David Cromer’s work.…
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Charles Ives, Connoisseur of Chaos
In 1921, Charles E. Ives, a wealthy co-proprietor of the New York life-insurance firm Ives & Myrick, launched a bid to rebrand himself as…
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The Brothers Grimm Were Dark for a Reason
Once upon a time, a family by the name of Grimm carried on a life that was anything but. In the wooded German state of Hessen, Philipp, a…
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Winter Culture Preview
Nothing says the holidays quite like Franz Kafka, who died of tuberculosis in 1924, right when the Morgan Library was admitting its first…