Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show
Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source…
Critic’s Notebook
admin Scenes from La Canicule in Paris
During a historic heat wave, air-conditioning has become the linchpin of an intensifying political debate in France, Doreen St. Félix…
Fight Night at the White House
Naomi Fry writes about the UFC Freedom 250 event, hosted on the South Lawn of the White House, on June…
The World Cup and the Changing Psyche of the Haitian Diaspora
For Les Grenadiers and their fans, the game will be about the confrontation of a certain psychological displacement. Doreen St.…
“Rafa”: the Destruction of a Man, and the Making of a Legend
Naomi Fry on Zach Heinzerling’s new Netflix docuseries, “Rafa,” and its subject, the legendary Spanish tennis champion Rafael Nadal.
The Heretical Energy of “Is God Is”
Doreen St. Félix considers the playwright Aleshea Harris’s directorial début, an adaptation of her play of the same name, comparing…
The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The women pop up again and again, in canvas after canvas, like a random intrusive thought that refuses to go…
The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Sam Kriss writes about a new law in the U.K. that bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest…