“Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads

“Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads

The film draws a link between these journalistic versions and the unfolding action through the character of Linda Page (Myha’la), a TV reporter on the scene outside the office building. When her station prepares to dispatch another reporter to Tony’s apartment complex, she’s annoyed. She knows the place well and feels it’s her story, so,…

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Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside

Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside

Many will remember Daniil Simkin for his technically brilliant dancing at American Ballet Theatre. He is now a freelancer and a producer; his latest project, “Sons of Echo,” is an evening of dances made by female choreographers for a quintet of distinguished male dancers: Simkin, the Cuban dazzler Osiel Gouneo, the South African-born Siphesihle November…

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Is Life a Game?

Is Life a Game?

What does make a meal or a trip “successful”? It’s hard to say; this is one of the reasons that you can see value capture happening and be almost powerless to stop it. For many years, until I started writing this column, I was an editor at The New Yorker; I’ve now given up my…

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Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions

Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions

A titanic artist’s death is a terrible shock. In the case of the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who has died after a long illness, at the age of seventy, I confess that I’d expected—without necessarily hoping for—a faint premonition, perhaps a grim tingle in our collective cinephile sixth sense. Tarr, unique among his European art-film…

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ICE’s New-Age Propaganda

ICE’s New-Age Propaganda

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Late last year, the White House’s social-media team lauded ICE’s torrential deportation efforts with a string of memes seemingly engineered to go viral. In one video posted to Instagram, the song “all-american bitch,” by Olivia Rodrigo, provides a soundtrack to a…

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How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex

How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex

The latest and most vigorous addition to this genre is “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone” (Norton), by Quill Kukla, a professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University. Part manual, part manifesto, “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’ ” has plenty of can-do ideas about how we might turn consensual sex into “good sex”—how we…

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Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”

Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”

For the cover of the January 12, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss used color and composition to contrast the warmth inside with the blistering cold outside. “While in art school, living off of ramen noodles, I’d peek into the windows of gorgeous old brownstones, imagining I lived there instead of in my freezing, roach-infested…

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“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers

“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers

Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their charges, all teen-agers, with tough-minded compassion. Most of the mothers have already given birth, though the first one we meet, Jessica (Babette Verbeek), is in the final days…

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