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Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, the Finance Bros Behind HBO’s “Industry”
Industry's godmother is Jane Tranter, an influential executive producer who has worked in both Britain and Hollywood. In the early ...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
Cursed daughtersOyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday). This moody, gripping novel, set in Lagos, weaves together the stories of three women who grew ...
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Shows that Black Art Matters
I had to wait for the next generation—my older sister—to overcome this uncertainty and introduce me to the political, social, ...
The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus”
Civilization will outlive humanity in the new sci-fi drama Pluribus. On a night when the world as we know it ...
Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” Becomes a Spanish Opera
Perhaps Rigola should have been more intentional in his handling of the text, as his libretto unfolds more like a ...
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
Like her childhood identification with communism, her writing began as something of a joke. She was completely devoted to the ...
The Backlash to High Electric Bills Could Transform U.S. Politics
It’s a familiar look for the office of an organization in the Deep South rooted in decades of fighting for ...
What Makes Goethe So Special?
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early 16th-century knight with an ...
Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?
“What power?” I asked. “All kinds of power,” he said and smiled. In June, when Trump announced he had brought ...
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean
Last year, in a New York federal courtroom, a crime boss from Honduras' most notorious drug cartel testified against Juan ...