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Peter de Sève’s “New York’s Toughest”
[ad_1] For the cover of the February 2, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève celebrates the brave souls who continue to work when the city is paralyzed by a...
Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis
[ad_1] “They killed another guy,” someone announced, in my group chat. That message was followed quickly by a link to a video, shot from behind a pane of glass, level...
Wild Cherry Is Ready for Its Closeup
[ad_1] This could have easily been chaos, but it reads as mere idiosyncrasy, thanks to the sheer force of Wild Cherry’s appeal as a place to while away a few...
The Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press Conference
[ad_1] Playacting for journalists standing in an unruly huddle just off camera, Trump asked questions of the oilmen, wondering how soon they could suck the ground under Venezuela dry. “And...
William Eggleston’s Lonely South
[ad_1] Eggleston, however, used color in a different way: he employed the bright shock effect of advertising—Drink Coca-Cola! Drive this Buick!—but separated it from capitalism. There’s so much junk in...
Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
[ad_1] Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too. There’s Deborah Cosey, the first Black member of...
How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?
[ad_1] I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God...
The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
[ad_1] Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”)Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”)Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”)Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)First, the legally required boilerplate: by definition, the best movie of the year is the...
Donald Trump, Drama Queen
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
[ad_1] This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any human contact. We meet him as...
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