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The Heartrending Movies of John Cazale
With his sallow face and boulder-like forehead, John Cazale was one of the indelible character actors of the nineteen-seventies, but his…
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John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X”
Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle…
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Oval Office Ambush
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Summer Culture Preview
High-stakes competition makes for high drama in “F1 the Movie” (June 27), directed by Joseph Kosinski, starring Brad Pitt as a Formula One…
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Vladimir Putin’s Dangerous Game
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Hilton Als on the Visionary World of Alva Rogers
I met Alva Rogers years ago, through a mutual friend, and her various incarnations—actress, singer, artistic director, writer,…
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My New York City Tour of Tours
I’m a sucker for guided tours. I love a CliffsNotes condensation of a place. All of Rome in ninety minutes gave me a Visigothic sense of…
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Why I Broke Up with New York
All this may seem to imply some deeper judgment about the city—that I think it’s wanton and unregulated, a “Where’s Waldo?” of Boschian…
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Disco Balls and Roller Skates, at Xanadu
In the lushly pleasurable Bobby Darin bio-musical “Just in Time,” by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, the director Alex Timbers ensconces…
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Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound
For many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. & B. with traditional…
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The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of…
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“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane Bua Bua writes about classical music for Goings On. Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman…
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Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
Hilton Als Staff writer In 1971, the painter, quilter, and children’s-book author Faith Ringgold went to prison. She was not incarcerated;…
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The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
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The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to…
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The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Not every filmmaker is a cinephile, but, among those who are, that passion can manifest itself in unexpected ways. The driving pleasure of…
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A Visit to Madam Bedi: A Personal History by Tara Westover
My friend Sukrit invited me to India. His mother lived in Delhi. He said I should get out of England and give my eyes something new to…
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Goings On Turns a Hundred
Shauna Lyon Editor, Goings On In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of The New Yorker, I’ve been looking back at old issues,…
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Giorgio Morandi Tried to Fit the World on a Table
As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s…
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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…
