admin The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
Zachary Fine reviews “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” a landmark show at the Met that shows how the painters advanced…
Marco Rubio’s Wild, Wild West
Ishaan Tharoor writes that, in Greece, the Secretary of State soft-launched his Presidential bid by casting the West as a…
What a Public Execution Looks Like
Dexter Filkins on Pete Hegseth’s planned public execution of Nidal Hasan and his memory of a public execution by the…
Cinema of Wayward Souls
The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms, E. Tammy Kim writes.
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy?
Isaac Chotiner interviews Yogendra Yadav, an activist and political scientist in India, about the most recent wave of anti-government protests…
Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night”
Yiyun Li on what makes a novel a historical novel, after researching the real-life figures John Field and Adelaide Percheron,…
Some Mangled Foreign Title Translations
Jay Martel and Jonathan Stern jokingly imagine how the titles of popular TV shows and films would be translated abroad:…
An Unlikely Taylor Swift Fan Gets Out of Prison, in “Daylight”
Joe Garcia, who wrote about finding Swift’s music after a murder conviction, searches for redemption in a new short film…
Pity the Poor Passport
Adam Gopnik writes about changes to the U.S. passport at the behest of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to take…
We’re Learning to Live with Waymos. It’s Going Weird
Waymo wants us to give up the car keys. But what are we if not drivers? Molly Fischer on the…