Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with the publication of her début novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” a fictional “retelling” of her childhood in a working-class…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My grandmother, who is ninety-two, has moved three times in her life. She was born in a small town in the province of Shandong, China, and, when she was twenty-three, she…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The violence of the Israel-Palestine conflict marked Winner’s life early, and trauma became the preoccupation of his art. On the morning of October 7th, as Hamas militants paraglided over Israel’s razor-wire…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In March, 1983, Arthur Miller arrived in Beijing to direct a Chinese staging of “Death of a Salesman” at the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. Opening night was six weeks away and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A new “Frasier” has débuted nearly two decades after the conclusion of the original series, and it moves Kelsey Grammer’s eponymous psychotherapist back to Boston, the city where he was introduced,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in 1947, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank boarded a liberty ship in Antwerp, Belgium; almost a month later, he arrived alone in New York, to make his way as an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen Garner lives in Melbourne, next door to her daughter, her son-in-law, three grandchildren, some chickens, and a blue-heeler-and-kelpie mix named Smokey. On the day we planned to meet, her living…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few years ago, advertisements for a software service named Monday.com seemed to be suddenly everywhere online. This ubiquity didn’t come cheap. An S.E.C. filing revealed that the product’s developers had…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A pale, shirtless boy in his late teens is sitting in a dim, bare room. His phone is propped up on a desk in front of him, beneath a rigged-up ring-light…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s appropriate that the new film by Errol Morris, perhaps the most theoretically minded of documentarians, should provide a keen reminder that most problems of substance are also problems of form.…