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The Reclamation of Jane Campion’s “In the Cut”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “In the Cut,” which premièred in 2003, is Jane Campion’s most ghettoized picture. The Australian director has been lauded for films such as “The Piano,” about motherhood and marriage, and “The…

The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first time I travelled outside of Gaza, I was twenty-seven years old. Growing up, I had always thought of “travel” as riding a taxi, bus, or bike within the borders…

Todd Solondz’s Unfulfilled Desires

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In May, I joined the director Todd Solondz for lunch at Union Square Café, the swank Manhattan bistro. The restaurant opened in 1985, the same year that Solondz dropped out of…

The Disquieting Dogmas Behind Three Cat Controversies

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With a certain liberal arrogance, many took a racist fabrication from Donald Trump at last week’s Presidential debate to be the evening’s crowning gaffe. In the Rust Belt town of Springfield,…

Is Culture Dying?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My mother, who is Chinese, grew up in Malaysia and came to America for college, in the nineteen-seventies. She and my American dad divorced when I was small, and this allowed…

Christoph Niemann’s “Smoke and Mirrors”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the September 23, 2024, Style special issue, Christoph Niemann plays with the flat colors and geometric shapes of those ubiquitous New York funnels in order to capture the excitement one…