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Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories
There’s a YouTube video I love of Glen Hansard standing on a rainy street in Dublin, wearing a black jacket and a scarf, cradling a guitar that shows signs...
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play
Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more. Source link
Mitch McConnell: The Musical
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Three Books Sheila Heti Recommends
Sheila Heti—whose new story “Earthly Delights,” about the mysteries of lust, appears in this week’s issue—wrote one of my favorite books ever: “Motherhood.” The narrator is in her thirties,...
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”
One of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great gifts as a writer was her ability to reconnect, at age sixty-three and beyond, with her childhood sense of wonder and discovery. For...
How Bots Took Over Our Lives
This strategy of manufacturing a froth of interest around a given subject, from Nicki Minaj’s political perspectives to Sydney Sweeney’s jean ads, has recently been especially effective, and has...
The Myth of the Food Desert
These investigations were partly spurred by the riots of the nineteen-sixties, which directed public attention toward interventions that might “make further riots less likely,” as the Journal put it....
“Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies
Are there two Americas, too many Americas, not enough? The plaint changes with the day. Identity is a serpentine target on the dance floor—a place where, in its most...
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future
In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the...
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
The extraordinary adventure of Flaco the Owl, who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in February, 2023, is recounted in fanatical detail in Penny Lane’s documentary “Wild Inside.” The...
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