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What’s coming this season in TV, theatre, music, movies, dance, and art.
“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy
Boots Riley’s new film is an exuberantly inventive but overstretched comedy about the redistribution of luxury goods, Richard Brody writes.
Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?
It’s what most of us are, most of the time. Shouldn’t it be enough? Joshua Rothman on the pursuit of…
How Good Is This World Cup Squad, Really?
Leander Schaerlaeckens writes about the U.S. men’s national soccer team, led by the international star Christian Pulisic.
Singing the Knicks’ Praises, with a Dash of Metal
Doug Berns, a.k.a. DugLust, is a Knicks nut and a modern-day Weird Al, who counts Ben Stiller among his devotees.…
Updated Birdsong Mnemonics for Donald Trump’s America
Christopher Gangemi jokingly writes about how to remember certain bird sounds in today’s political climate.
August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World
In “People of the 20th Century,” the photographer set out to document every type and profession in the fading epoch…
The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”
Emily Nussbaum observes that a new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy both hinge on a universal anxiety: How well…
Clarence Thomas Against Progressivism—and Progressives
Ruth Marcus on Clarence Thomas’s recent speech, at the University of Texas, on the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of…
The Missing Bride of Anqoun
Rania Abouzeid on a family’s devastation after an Israeli air strike destroyed an apartment building in Beirut, purportedly aimed at…