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Eight Great American Novels
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American...
At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys...
What Happened to Your Face?
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like reading a code...
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
One hardly needs a list of blue zones to think of commonsense ways to improve life span. We can invest in biomedical research and enact laws and regulations to...
Sublime Fury at the Ojai Festival
Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in Gabriella Smith’s “Anthozoa,” for violin, cello, piano, and percussion, which evoked...
Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”
I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In 2003, it seemed...
Angelina Jolie Has Style Trouble in “Couture”
The compressed script and the snippety editing sometimes lead to unintended comedy, as in a scene where Maxine watches Christine, the seamstress, work. While sewing by hand, Christine accidentally...
The Coastal Mysteries of “Romería” and “Rose of Nevada”
In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore thing. Source link
The Artistry of Tarot
Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more. Source link
Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I.
Anadol enjoyed an early triumph in 2018, when he lit up the silver sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, with projections developed using terabytes of...
