Style
In Chicago, Will the Pope Bump Last?
In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long time reflexively call him. It’s titillating to...
What Casey Means and MAHA Want You to Fear
If you close your eyes and imagine an up-from-the-bootstraps embodiment of boomer triumphalism—the ambitious young technocrat of a systems novel by Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon, sprinting toward his...
Ann Goldstein on Keeping English in Mind
When the translator Ann Goldstein—who has helped to bring Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, and Pope John Paul II to English readers—works on a project, she likes to read English...
“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” Goes Hard on Valediction
“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” has a running time of just under three hours. Within those three hours, alas, I’d say that Tom Cruise has a running time of only...
How “Andor” Injects Contemporary Politics Into “Star Wars” I.P.
It’s rare to hear the word “genocide” uttered unequivocally on television, let alone on the streaming service Disney+. So it was a bit of a shock to encounter the...
The Making of “Rust” Was a Tragedy. Its Final Form Is a Missed Opportunity
Some movies eventually become inseparable from the stories of their production. Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and “Marnie” are now inextricably associated with their star Tippi Hedren’s allegations of the...
A New Wave of Cinematic Riches Arrives at Cannes
“When will this fucking movie be over with?” It’s a question that surfaces often at the Cannes Film Festival, where hour blurs into hour, movie bleeds into movie, and,...
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it. What made...
Pavement Inspires a Strange, Loving Bio-Pic
I once assumed that Pavement would be forgotten by later generations, just as the knowing, sarcastic wit of the nineteen-nineties came to seem passé in the two-thousands. The band’s...
R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was nine when his uncle was murdered and fourteen when his father was. Even in his youth, he recalled, he doubted that Oswald had acted alone....
