Before I became a journalist, I got a Ph.D. in Russian literature. I don’t miss academia, but I do miss my Moscow…
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CULTURE
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By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened…
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Like many employees of Ed and the F.S.A., Gittleman had her critiques of the system. “A society should not be forcing people…
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Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and…
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Brad Karp’s cellphone rang on the evening of Tuesday, March 18th. It was the President of the United States. Karp, the chairman…
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Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely worth a…
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Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during the early…
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The Québécois director Philippe Lesage began making documentaries in the early two-thousands. He has since switched to narrative features, but they have…
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It was St. Blaise Day, when Catholics go to church to get their throats blessed. St. Blaise (San Blas in Mexico, Saint-Blaise…
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Minutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a dozen officers…