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Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?
This summary does an injustice to the originality and the sophistication of Tregenza’s way with narrative form. The tale unfolds in many time frames—Sterling’s memory-fraught quest for speed, the...
The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It?
Walt Rostow, who became Lyndon B. Johnson’s national-security adviser during the Vietnam War, had also been working on postwar plans to incorporate Germany into the rest of Western Europe by...
A Short Song for a Long and Precious Season
But “Something to Love” is an anthem of summer, not of child rearing. Isbell’s lyrics unfold in that long, leisurely way that the hottest months of the year do,...
Why Can’t I Stop Writing About Where I’m From?
When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from? Source link
Sam Smith on Their New Album, “Hazel Eyes”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Sam Smith burst onto...
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose
Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more. Source link
Critics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night”
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.When it dropped in January of 1997, Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday...
Ryan Murphy “Glee”-ifies Bret Easton Ellis’s Thriller “The Shards”
Equally lethal are Bret’s writerly aspirations. His ability to spin stories about the Trawler means that he is destabilized by the crimes in a way that his classmates aren’t....
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Joan Baez, yet another famous fan, emerges as one of the diary’s recurrent characters, and a kind of guiding spirit for this metamorphosis. She enters his orbit after a...
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Harpman’s picture of stripped-down desolation has resonated with many social-media users, who have praised the book’s “haunting” story and likened it to “staring into a void.” There’s an incongruity...
