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The Joy of New Americans
At ceremonies in Arizona, hundreds of people were naturalized, and many prepared to vote. Source link
Mackenzie Davis’s Bookshelf of Crime Stories
Mackenzie Davis’s acting career has been built largely from roles that sit slightly outside the conventional female-star repertoire: as a programming prodigy in AMC’s sleeper hit “Halt and Catch...
Could Steampunk Save Us?
This summer, I bought my wife a vintage watch—a model called the Big Crown Pointer Date, made by the Swiss company Oris. The watch was manufactured in 1995, and...
A Family Reckons with a Father’s Wish to Be Preserved Using Cryonics in “Eternal Father”
Nasar Ghafoor looks healthy and vibrant, but he has mortality on his mind. Ghafoor started a family late in life, and fears that he won’t be there to see...
The Haunting Otherworld of Japanese Puppet Theatre
The National Bunraku Theatre, in New York recently for the first time in more than thirty years, presented an evening of suicides. The performance, at the Japan Society, consisted...
What Do Animals Understand About Death?
The Virginia opossum, according to John Smith—that explorer of all things Virginia—“hath a head like a Swine, & a taile like a Rat, and is of the Bignes of...
The Rebellion of a Fruitless Apple Tree
Every autumn, I begin to crave generic seasonal comforts: the hues of turning leaves, the chill of sweater weather. I’m not really a pumpkin-spice person, but I’m a sucker...
Quick, Affordable Sushi That’s Still a Cut Above
At a certain level of execution, sushi is very much an art of marginal differences: the precise angle to which one chef might hone the blade of his knife,...
Living in the Shadow of an American Election
A feeling of impending doom hovers over many of Nasseri’s pictures. On the first day of the road trip, which happened to fall on the Fourth of July, Nasseri...
“Conclave” Is a Mild Thriller About a Tense Papal Election
A reformist Pope who boldly leads the Catholic Church into controversial changes should be played by an actor of commanding presence. In “Conclave,” there is such a Pope—he’s seen...
