Lifestyle & Property

Nanci Griffith’s Lone Star State of Mind

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Texas-born singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith’s voice is an “acquired taste,” as one critic put it after Griffith’s death two years ago, at the age of sixty-eight. To me, Griffith’s idiosyncratic sound—coquettishly…

Daniel Clowes’s “Quiet Luxury”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the Money Issue, the cartoonist Daniel Clowes evokes the lavish, concentrated wealth that governs our world. The true billionaires, rich beyond comprehension, hardly need to flaunt their…

The Problem of the Too-Truthful Woman

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Anatomy of a Fall,” the remarkable new film by the French director Justine Triet, begins with an interview. A woman arrives at a chalet in the French Alps to speak with…

The Unholy Son

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I was a child, I associated the Christian life with glacial stretches of boredom, punctuated by unannounced aesthetic bliss. Perhaps this was simply life in the suburbs. I grew up…