CULTURE
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The Politics That Derailed Congestion Pricing in New York
Congestion pricing is an unfortunate name. The term comes from market economics, but it sounds like you’re paying for a…
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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
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“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur
Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic…
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A Succession Battle Over America’s Largest Ren Faire
There are few filmmakers more curious about the emotional lives of the elderly than the wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim. In…
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The Rediscovery of “Naked Acts” Expands Film History
Movies that rely on symbolism usually do so through conspicuous artifice, whether that of high style (Hitchcock, Hawks, Wes Anderson)…
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Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”
Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form…
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Bannon Behind Bars | The New Yorker
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What Israel’s Leaders Can’t—or Won’t—Say About Biden’s Ceasefire Announcement
On Friday, President Joe Biden publicly called on Hamas to agree to what he said was an Israeli ceasefire proposal…
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
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A Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover
Edmund White’s “Nocturnes for the King of Naples” opens with the most remarkable account of cruising I know. By cruising…
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