Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With movies that are based on books, there’s no inherent merit in either fidelity or infidelity. What matters is the sense of freedom, of using a book to one’s own purposes.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A century ago, August Krogh, a Danish physiologist who had just won the Nobel Prize, embarked on a U.S. lecture tour. Krogh studied the intricate network of blood vessels that nourish…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Daniel Kish takes his glass eyes out of their sockets, the two boys sitting near him have some questions. Does it feel weird without them? Can he blink? Daniel answers…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hollywood movies have a problem with intellectual endeavor; just look at the thinly imagined inner lives of the titular protagonists of “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro.” But Ava DuVernay’s new movie, “Origin,” a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the winter of 2020, on one of my aimless, frigid quarantine walks around my silent neighborhood, I remember being struck by a thought: did a medieval European peasant know that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Just north of the city center of Bordeaux, on the bank of the wide, sluggish Garonne River, lies the Cité du Vin, a spectacular museum dedicated to the global history of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Five months after Salman Rushdie suffered a near-fatal stabbing during an event at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, in August, 2022, he sat for a photo portrait by Richard…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story During the depths of the pandemic, swimming gave three women a way to connect and turned them into friends. Jennefer Hoffmann trudges in the blue pre-dawn light; the only sounds are…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the past decade, Beyoncé has been using documentary film to craft a narrative about herself in the absence of traditional press interviews and public appearances. Her films, which include “Life…