Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A reader comes to a piece of criticism with a basic assumption: the critic is writing about a work that the reader can eventually go and seek out herself. Reviews are…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Peter van Agtmael was in college, he bought a collection of pictures taken by photojournalists who had died while covering the Vietnam War. “The pictures that shaped my understanding of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary people organized…
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. There’s a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “I’m Not a Robot.” “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away at their laptops. Walls of windows…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s tedious to talk about the weather, but “All We Imagine as Light” compels me to at least attempt an exception. From the moment the movie begins, on a warm night…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story By the end of Donald Trump’s campaign for a second Presidency, he was part of a package deal. The Trump ticket represented not only Trump and his running mate, J. D.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Goodbye, Morganza.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. “It was a piece of heaven,” Agnes Marshall Blackwell says about the house she grew up…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people whose candidate…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Pickles are a dollar each. Sugar-free cough drops go for a nickel. The sub special with three meats and two kinds of cheese is just $5.50. Only the newborn doesn’t have…