CULTURE
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What Pauline Kael Failed to See About Young Film Lovers
Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was…
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The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors
What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set…
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The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”
After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation…
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Restaurant Review: Crevette Makes Great Seafood Look Easy
Not everything at Crevette is effortless perfection. The Dover sole, a pricey fish that seems to be experiencing a renaissance…
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Will Trump’s Gulf of America Power Trip Break the White House Press Corps?
Is there any stupider—or more revealing—scandal of the many that Donald Trump has already unleashed in his second term than…
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The Long Shadow of the Kennedys
Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely…
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Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of…
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The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts
We are witnessing a constitutional system on the brink. The crisis started on Saturday, when James E. Boasberg, the chief…
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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D.: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
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“Mayhem,” Reviewed: Lady Gaga’s Return to Form
In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length…
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