At the start of “Brexit,” on HBO, Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch) addresses the camera from the floor of a supply closet. The tale he tells is about the victory, in June, 2016, of the Vote Leave campaign in the referendum Read More …

That it isn’t really about movies is the first surprise. Binx Bolling, the novel’s main character, is only an occasional moviegoer, both by the standards of postwar America (when Martin Scorsese would see a movie a day) and those of Read More …

Mitski, the twenty-eight-year-old singer-songwriter who, this past August, put out “Be the Cowboy,” one of the best albums of the year, is a star. This isn’t a question of crowd size—although she did open for Lorde on an arena tour Read More …

Charley Pride, who was born in Mississippi, in 1938, and has spent much of his adult life in Texas, is one of the finest vocalists in country-music history, and among the genre’s most successful recording artists. In the early nineteen-seventies, Read More …

Click:Press Release Until last week, the world’s most famous self-destructing work of art was Jean Tinguely’s “Homage to New York.” The Swiss artist’s sculpture—a motorized contraption that was twenty-seven-feet tall and incorporated a bathtub, a player piano, drums, a go-kart, Read More …

1 of 10 I strain to recall any particular detail from the Thanksgiving dinners served in my suburban boyhood, but the early hours of those careless Thursdays hover in my head as the image of a mass-cultural feast. A ceremonially Read More …

This past October, Jane Mayer reviewed a book by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania, titled “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know.” Jamieson’s book Read More …

Last summer, in Alaska, a thirty-four-year-old white man named Justin Schneider met a twenty-five-year-old Native American woman at a gas station. He offered her a ride, and she accepted. Later, he demanded that she get out of the vehicle. He Read More …

It’s been a drama-filled year for the Academy Awards, from the saga surrounding Kevin Hart’s withdrawal as host to complaints about cutting categories from the broadcast in the interest of shortening the ceremony. At least one aspect of the Oscars, Read More …

Sixty years ago, the American folklorists Samuel Charters and Ann Danberg visited the Fresh Creek settlement on the eastern end of the Bahamian island of Andros, just north of the Tropic of Cancer. Andros is now known chiefly as a Read More …