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Adebunmi Gbadebo and the Mysteries of Clay
[ad_1] The relationship between Adebunmi Gbadebo and her material, clay, is one of supplication—on the part of Gbadebo. The churched among us consider a potter something of an autocrat; they...
“The Smashing Machine” Pulls Its Punches
[ad_1] Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by...
Should College Get Harder?
[ad_1] Around twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I taught a class in a special observation room at my university’s teaching center. My students and...
Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
[ad_1] Stein’s authority as an arbiter was bolstered by an ambiguously gendered seduction. Genius, she believed, was a masculine trait, and she felt that her own genius was male. After...
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Chris Kraus Reinvents the True-Crime Novel
[ad_1] On a recent Sunday morning, I took a bus to Williamsburg to meet Chris Kraus, the seventy-year-old writer who attained permanent literary It Girl status with her début novel,...
The Leftist Podcaster Who Studies Online Radicalization
[ad_1] This past March, the Times writer and power podcaster Ezra Klein appeared on “Doomscroll,” a small but influential YouTube interview show hosted by the thirty-eight-year-old artist, researcher, and author...
What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War
[ad_1] Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields. Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to...
“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury
[ad_1] At a crucial moment in “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, someone cries out, “Who are you?!” A fair question. The man being asked...
The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon
[ad_1] There’s a scene in Netflix’s “Too Much” in which the heroine, an American transplant in London, listens to a playlist curated by her new British paramour. (Megan Stalter and...
A Children’s Book That Actually Feels Like Childhood
[ad_1] One of the perks of parenthood, it is often said, is to relive the joys of one’s youth, to share with your child everything you once loved—especially books. Before...
