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“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn?
Zhao's first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a strong, windy lyricism, and replete with non-professional actors. ...
“This World of Tomorrow” and “Oedipus” Dramatize the Power of the Past
To write Tomorrow, Hanks and Glossman adapted several of Hanks's own short stories, most notably “The Past Matters to Us,” ...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
Age of extractionTim Wu (Knopf). Hanging over this insightful analysis of major technology platforms and their impact on the broader ...
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
“It was the first time in my life that I didn’t have to do anything,” Asawa said later. She took ...
If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently
“Injustice” largely ignores these cases. His drama is tightly confined to the Justice Department—which is instructive but sometimes suffocating. Bragg's ...
Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment
According to Judith Thurman's profile in this magazine, Reza completed “Art” in six weeks because she writes “improvising as she ...
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
Af Klint later stated (implausibly, according to some historians) that Steiner warned her that the world was not ready for ...
“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death
The rave suddenly stops, and the story, which Laxe co-wrote with Santiago Fillol, begins like a shot. Armed soldiers appear ...
The Icelandic Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, Absurd and Profound in Equal Measures
Kader Attia The Oubliée Bag (2024) uncovers a treasure trove of family memories, using photographs and archival material buried in ...
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of Danish writer Solvay Balle's Volume Calculation series, is trapped in a time loop, she ...
