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The Cancer Scams That Foreshadowed MAHA
In 1986, Gilda Radner, one of “Saturday Night Live” ’s original Not Ready for Prime Time Players, was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, at the age of forty. She...
How the Oscar Race Got as Messy as “Conclave”
Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their lot. Time-honored rituals are observed....
“The Fishing Place” Puts History Into the Present Tense
The best filmmakers, looking to the past, see the future. The Holocaust and the Nazi menace to Europe have been filmmakers’ mainstays for decades, and sometimes the effort (whether...
Fuchsia Dunlop’s Taste for Adventure
In the nineteen-nineties, Fuchsia Dunlop—now a celebrated food writer and expert in Chinese cooking—enrolled at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, becoming the first foreigner to attend one of...
FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor
Twigs’s own kitchen, she informed me, has a shelf of teas as long as the S.U.V. we were riding in: jasmine and rose “for beauty,” lemon balm, lavender, and...
Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
One night in January, 2002, during the initial theatrical run of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” a friend and I, students at the University of Southern California, drove up toward...
A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming
In the course of the project, as Barbara grew older, Wywrot’s photographs became more collaborative, and more humorous, with mother and daughter messing around, staging scenes together. Wywrot told...
The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma...
The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black backdrop, is white, except for...
Provence in the West Village, at Zimmi’s
There’s traditional luxury to be had, if you’re looking for that sort of thing—a truffle-laden pasta special one night, toast soldiers piped with foie-gras mousse and topped with a...
