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“Split Brain,” by Weike Wang
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The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game”
[ad_1] Even if Mozart’s name and a quote from Beaumarchais’s play “The Marriage of Figaro” didn’t feature in the credits of “The Rules of the Game,” this 1939 film by...
Epstein Island Revealed
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Worlds in Rooms
[ad_1] I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with...
How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
[ad_1] Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this,...
Was the Renaissance Real?
[ad_1] Roeck goes on to address the great question of why Europe became the center of prosperity and innovation on the planet. Colonialism and imperialism can’t explain it; they’re as...
L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids
[ad_1] In early July, while shopping at a farmers’ market on the east side of Los Angeles, where I live, I bought a few packages of raw chicken thighs from...
A Young Parisian Chef’s Nouvelle Stodginess
[ad_1] I wanted more from Le Chêne, and from Duchêne. Not just more salt but more daring, more challenge, more bold and experimental vulgarity. Her crab thermidor (like many of...
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
[ad_1] Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” in an...
A Sensualist’s History of Gay Marriage and Immigration
[ad_1] There is a profuse longing for the foreseen. At least since the pandemic, I have seen some version of the statement “I could really use some precedented times.” The...
