Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hollywood movies have a problem with intellectual endeavor; just look at the thinly imagined inner lives of the titular protagonists of “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro.” But Ava DuVernay’s new movie, “Origin,” a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the winter of 2020, on one of my aimless, frigid quarantine walks around my silent neighborhood, I remember being struck by a thought: did a medieval European peasant know that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Just north of the city center of Bordeaux, on the bank of the wide, sluggish Garonne River, lies the Cité du Vin, a spectacular museum dedicated to the global history of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Five months after Salman Rushdie suffered a near-fatal stabbing during an event at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, in August, 2022, he sat for a photo portrait by Richard…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story During the depths of the pandemic, swimming gave three women a way to connect and turned them into friends. Jennefer Hoffmann trudges in the blue pre-dawn light; the only sounds are…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the past decade, Beyoncé has been using documentary film to craft a narrative about herself in the absence of traditional press interviews and public appearances. Her films, which include “Life…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Unlike American addresses, Costa Rican directions require you to get acquainted with the landscape you are traversing and the people who call it home. When she was child, the filmmaker María…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2023. The magazine’s writers also came across many other new…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photographer An-My Lê was born in Saigon in 1960, six years into the Vietnam War. Four days before North Vietnamese forces captured the city, in 1975, Lê and her family…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The distinctive cinematography of Sean Price Williams has been making its mark on modern American independent filmmaking for two decades, ever since 2002, when he was shooting Ronald Bronstein’s “Frownland” (which…