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The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Whatever’s new to me is new. If you’d asked me recently whether Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Breakfast of Champions,” from 1973, had been adapted for a movie, I’d have scoffed that anyone…

Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I consumed the nineties Black horror films of my youth largely through my fingers, spreading them just wide enough, occasionally, to put a visual to some discomforting sound. The films—“Def by…

Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. In 1971,…

Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, the American public could have been forgiven for thinking of Elon Musk’s vaunted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a version of a familiar Republican cost-cutting, government-shrinking project.…

Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a competitive marketplace devoted…

A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work from bold new filmmakers into a fickle, yet potentially receptive, movie-loving…