Of all of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song, Sufjan Stevens’s “Mystery of Love,” from “Call Me by Your Name,” was the only entry promising little in the way of absolution. “But love is stronger, stronger than Read More …
At the end of last year, Dick Balzer, the former chairman of the Magic Lantern Society of the United States and Canada, and Mervyn Heard, the former chairman of the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, died, a few weeks Read More …
Last week, when the Danish amateur engineer Peter Madsen was found guilty of the premeditated killing, sexual assault, and dismemberment of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, his life sentence marked the close of the most macabre crime investigation in recent Read More …
One morning last month, on the day of Juicy Couture’s first-ever New York Fashion Week runway show, Jamie Mizrahi, the company’s twenty-nine-year-old creative director, posted a note to her hundred and twenty-three thousand followers on Instagram. “Nostalgia has proven to Read More …
Thomas Mann has come home to 1550 San Remo Drive, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Editions of Shakespeare, Schiller, Dostoyevsky, and Flaubert rest on the shelves of Mann’s study, which looks out past a stand of eucalyptus Read More …
Early episodes of “Killing Eve” hummed with the glamorous thrills of savage deeds. Changing costumes with the briskness of Sydney Bristow on “Alias,” the assassin Villanelle liquidated one target in a villa under the Tuscan sun, gassed another in a Read More …
Claire Denis’s new film, “Let the Sunshine In,” which opened last Friday, is a very simple story of an enormous complexity. It’s a romantic comedy and drama in which the questioning of those very categories is a part of the Read More …
This weekend, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, will host the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, the first and only festival dedicated exclusively to American-primitive guitar music. Takoma Park, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is also the home town of Read More …
In 2011, the poet Donald Hall—who passed away at his home in rural New Hampshire, on Saturday, at age eighty-nine—received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, the highest award granted to an artist by the American government. For Read More …
“Can you stand back a little?” That’s what the photographer Larry Fink remembers Jerry Brown, the governor of California, asking him on a Monday in December. Fink was at the capitol building in Sacramento to photograph Brown for Connie Bruck’s Read More …