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“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of...
The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism that...
The Four Horsemen Team Rides Again
As at Four Horsemen, where an oeuf mayonnaise is zebra-striped with squid ink and humble beans are treated like precious gems, Curtola trusts his diners to venture beyond obvious...
Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-Two Years
Once the family settled into their new normal, Holton resumed his photography. The tones of these prints are darker: shadows replace the bright colors, and family members are visibly...
The Strange, Cinematic Life of Charlie Sheen
“I think there’s so many stories and images ingrained in people’s minds about the concept of me,” the actor Charlie Sheen tells the camera in the new two-part Netflix...
What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High
Ojos del Salado rises more than twenty-two thousand feet above sea level, on Chile’s northeastern border. It is the world’s tallest volcano, towering over the world’s highest desert: an...
How Donald Trump’s Culture-Wars Playbook Felled Jimmy Kimmel
On Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration, ABC pulled the late-night series “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. The show, which had run for more than two...
Raul Lopez Wants to Be American Fashion
In the fall of 2014, Lopez staged an official Fashion Week event at Webster Hall. He recalled thinking, I’m about to hit it, I’m about to make it now—until...
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The Metropolitan Opera Delves Into Comic Books
Illustration by Jimmy Simpson1. The beloved British polymath and broadcasting legend Melvyn Bragg, who joined the BBC in 1961, recently stepped down from his show “In Our Time,” which,...
Robert Redford and the Perils of Perfection
Gentleman, preferred, blond: such was the job description of Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine. Onscreen, he and his buddy Paul Newman were partners...
