Peter Hujar’s Search for Secrets
Hilton Als reviews “Hujar:Contact,” at the Morgan Library. The photographer’s portraits bring certain truths to the surface.
A Critic at Large
admin What Happened to Your Face?
Cal Revely-Calder reviews “The Face: A Cultural History,” by Fay Bound-Alberti, and considers how our faces, once deeply personal, became…
Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers
David Denby considers the challenges facing Christopher Nolan’s upcoming quarter-billion-dollar film adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, “The Odyssey,” starring Matt…
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Jill Lepore chronicles the rise of machine-generated writing, from a Hollywood plot-writing grift and Cold War computer poetry to the…