Joanna Arnow’s new film, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” mines the comic potential of distance and framing, in an examination of degradations large and small,
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writes.
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han has become a kind of sage of the Internet era, but “perhaps we should take his writing as an incitement to live our own offline lives instead,”
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writes.
“I like it when I pick up something, I don’t know what it is, and then my head gets blown off. That’s my favorite reading experience,” the writer Maggie Nelson tells Lauren Michele Jackson, in a new interview.
In 2021, the singer Maggie Rogers entered the graduate program at Harvard Divinity School. “A lot of what I came here to do was to think about how to create a more sustainable structure around a creative practice,” she told
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Anticipating increased tensions caused by income inequality, some of the wealthiest people have created luxury hideaways. “I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker,” the head of an investment firm said in 2017.
Joanna Arnow’s poignant and original performance in her first feature film, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” is a double masterwork of acting and directing,
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writes.
“It would be hard to overstate what a glorious, no-fucks-given rebuke ‘Challengers’ represents to the regrettably puritanical ethos that governs most mainstream Hollywood releases,”
@JustinCChang
writes, of Luca Guadagnino’s latest film.
On December 31, 1946, in Brooklyn, two young women got on a subway train and sat across from each other. They had never met, had never spoken, but their lives had been drawn together—and the entwinement was a sinister one.
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Despite popular claims about the quality of municipal water or baking altitude, the science of bagel-making is not about terroir but, rather, about context: every bagel reflects the tastes of the people it exists to serve,” Hannah Goldfield writes.
“For the first time in a decade, Trump is struggling to command attention,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes. Even so, his high-money trial is shaping up to be a sleazy spectacle.
“Don’t try to be funny,” Jerry Seinfeld says. “If you’re not funny, if people aren’t always telling you you’re funny, don’t be funny. Unless you’re drunk and you’re with your very close friends.”