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“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography
When Blume started writing, the market category of young-adult (as opposed to children’s) literature was defined by politically motivated novels that took up social issues, such as drugs and...
In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
With artificial intelligence continuing to dominate corporate strategies and news headlines, Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword, one that may feel too close to home for those already...
Were the 2026 Oscars a Swan Song for Warner Bros.?
The couple got into a Warner Bros.-issued Suburban. “Larry, do you have my speech?” Carter called out. (It would remain unread; she lost to Kate Hawley, for “Frankenstein.”) Her...
As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On
In Hollywood, and at the Oscars, “hope” is a very big word. Chloé Zhao used it in her recorded introduction to a clip from her film “Hamnet,” and Conan...
The 2026 Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance
These were stirring, unimpeachable sentiments; imagine the furor that might have erupted, by contrast, if Sean Penn, who famously disdains awards ceremonies, had shown up to collect his prize...
Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
Phillips is a figure for our therapy-soaked era, even if, for him, therapy feeds into and enables life, whereas we often seem to view life as feeding into and...
Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
It would appear, in synthesis and to borrow a pleasing opposition of human types from John Milton, that Morris was the active Allegro principle of the firm, while Willing...
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
Late night isn’t just a time slot. It’s a concept, a temporal metaphor for what we can get away with under the cloak of night, when the kids are...
What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital
Before meeting Graff and his patients, Schiele made art that was largely derivative. He had studied at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts with mixed results, and landed a few...
Maira Kalman’s “Amid It All”
For the cover of the March 23, 2026, Spring Style & Design Issue, the artist Maira Kalman painted a vase exploding with flowers, capturing the anticipatory air the season...
