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Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, Emma Stone and her husband, Dave McCary, got word of a micro-budget horror movie called “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” The film, which became a festival…

Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form nor content. She is rapping, more or less, her voice slightly…

Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A mother sits in the front seat of a car, her tanned and freckled face glowing; her daughter, owlish and opaque behind her glasses, stares at her mother’s cheek, transfixed, as…

How the Fridge Changed Flavor

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was the most talked-about meal in the United States. In the weeks leading up to the luncheon, its organizers received so many requests for seats that they switched the venue…

Lyle Ashton Harris’s Scrapbooks of the Self

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The title of Lyle Ashton Harris’s current exhibition at the Queens Museum, “Our First and Last Love,” is an abbreviated version of a fortune-cookie message: our first and last love is . . .…

“Flipside” Is a Treasure Trove of Music and Memory

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Chris Wilcha’s new documentary, “Flipside,” is easy to summarize, but it defies summary nonetheless, because it advances by a lurching, associative method that leaves fault lines on the surface of its…