Lord knows what the gaggle of tenth graders chewing French fries and puffing Marlboro Lights made of the small septuagenarian woman who…
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CULTURE
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To some degree, we always overinterpret elections. They can be decided by differences in proportion so small that, if the election had…
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“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some…
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She’s an exceptionally bright student. I’d taught her before, and I knew her to be quick and diligent. So what, exactly, did…
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At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts…
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The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just after 1 A.M., on Saturday, in…
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By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from…
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Clare Carlisle, a British philosopher and an award-winning biographer, is fascinated by books that relate the inner lives and sensibilities of others.…
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In 1976, when I read “Who’s Who in the Cast,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which is what…
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