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All the Easter Eggs in Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” Music Video
Then, we enter a glittering, aquatic-themed dance number that nods to the Busby Berkeley-choreographed “Human Waterfall” sequence in…
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A Season of Rage at the Philharmonic and the Met
John Corigliano’s First Symphony, which Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic presented early in the new season, begins with a…
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The Unexpected Sweetness of Bill and Ted’s “Waiting for Godot”
The jokes started before rehearsals did. “Waiting for Bill and Ted”; “Bill and Ted’s Existentialist Adventure”; “Party On, Godot!” How…
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Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
Stein’s authority as an arbiter was bolstered by an ambiguously gendered seduction. Genius, she believed, was a masculine trait, and she…
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Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us
When we think of the history of free-speech rights, we tend to think of the Anglo-American legal tradition. A virtue of Dabhoiwala’s book…
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The Most Unusual Celebrity Baby Names: Rocki Irish, Blue Ivy, Apple, and More
Raddix isn’t a name you encounter every day, with the exception of a 28-year-old DJ from Texas and Diaz and Madden's little one. Should…
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Charlotte Gainsbourg on Friendship, Fashion, and Her New Anthony Vaccarello-Directed Music Video
At the beginning of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new music video, we trace the journey of a vintage Chevrolet Impala convertible, bathed in the…
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A Travel Guide to Marfa, Texas
Getting to Marfa is a journey, no matter where you’re coming from. The closest city, El Paso, is a three-hour drive away through the Texas…
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“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made…
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The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part…
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
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The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
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Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment
Is there anything left of the old concept of debate? The practice of good-faith argument feels harder and harder to find, even as…
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48 Thoughts I Had While Watching Season 4, Episode 1 of ‘The Morning Show’
In the spirit of radical transparency, I am going to admit here that I have watched nary an episode of The Morning Show since I binged the…
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62 Thoughts I Had While Watching the Series Finale of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’
While I am wildly depressed about the lack of new The Summer I Turned Pretty episodes in my immediate future, at least we’ll always have…
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A Literary Walk Through Jane Austen’s Bath—With a Few Modern Detours
The train from London to Bath takes less than 90 minutes—and whisks you 300 years back in time. The UNESCO World Heritage city’s…
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Welcome, Gwyn!—Gwyneth Paltrow Introduces Her New Fashion Line
Gwyneth Paltrow may be phasing out Goop’s nine-year-old fashion line G. Label, but she has no intention of leaving the fashion game. On…
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In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home
That’s meant to be remedied by Calder Gardens, a new institution taking shape in a half-buried berm on the Parkway, not far from that…
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What I Wanted, What I Got
The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She…
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Zoe Dubno on ‘Happiness and Love,’ Her Wickedly Funny Debut Novel Skewering New York’s Creative Class
At the beginning of Zoe Dubno’s debut novel, Happiness and Love, we find ourselves at a Downtown Manhattan dinner party. Anticipation…
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What Should I Wear to a Wedding Rehearsal Dinner?
Deciding what to wear to a rehearsal dinner as a guest can be a big decision. A rehearsal dinner is considered one of the most intimate…
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18 Stylish Hitchcock Films to Rewatch Now
It’s possible to spend an entire lifetime trawling the works of Alfred Hitchcock. The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows…
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The Return of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Masterpiece, “The Brothers Size”
At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama “The Brothers Size,” now at the Shed, one of the play’s three actors pours white…