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The Robot and the Philosopher
[ad_1] Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been teased for a gesture that looked as though...
“Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads
[ad_1] The film draws a link between these journalistic versions and the unfolding action through the character of Linda Page (Myha’la), a TV reporter on the scene outside the office...
The Gospel According to Emily Henry
[ad_1] “I’m a huge dog person, which means that I experience death somewhat regularly, with the most beloved creature in my life,” she went on. “Every time that happens, you...
In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious
[ad_1] In Cromer’s framing, that hollowness begins to feel like the play’s sad theme: when someone is on a desperate hunt for meaning, the source of it ultimately doesn’t matter...
The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
[ad_1] Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal visions. Every shot of the tropics...
Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside
[ad_1] Many will remember Daniil Simkin for his technically brilliant dancing at American Ballet Theatre. He is now a freelancer and a producer; his latest project, “Sons of Echo,” is...
Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions
[ad_1] A titanic artist’s death is a terrible shock. In the case of the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who has died after a long illness, at the age of seventy,...
Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler”
[ad_1] When President Trump announced the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the cartoonist Barry Blitt decided that his image for the cover of the January 19, 2026,...
Reading for the New Year: Part Two
[ad_1] To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in 2025 to identify the...
The Perils of Killing the Already Dead
[ad_1] He goes on to say that to behead a corpse is to follow the path of Satan, and that it is God, not a lip-smacking corpse, who holds power...
