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“Splitsville” Plays Infidelity for Laughs; “A Little Prayer” Shows What’s Really at Stake
In the studiedly rambunctious comedy “Splitsville,” Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin play a pair of homewreckers. The home, a beachside vacation pad with natural-wood siding and floor-to-ceiling windows,...
“Honey Don’t!” Revives the Spirit of the Coen Brothers’ Movies
The main elements of Ethan Coen’s new film, “Honey Don’t!,” are sex and violence. Both involve profound sensations and potentially life-changing events; both reveal personality at its most feral...
Hilton Als’s Essential James Baldwin
A hundred and one years after James Baldwin’s birth, the writer has become as much an icon as a public intellectual can be—a status that, if justified by the...
The Redemption of Chance the Rapper
When Chance the Rapper declared “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail” on “Ultralight Beam,” the opener from West’s 2016 album, “The Life of Pablo,” the sentiment...
The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
“A person’s tennis,” John McPhee writes in “Levels of the Game,” from 1969, “begins with his nature and background and comes out through his motor mechanisms into shot patterns...
IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu
On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that has become the biggest international toy fad since Beanie Babies...
The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K.
The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a favored holiday retreat, both for summertime pursuits on its lake and...
Showdown in the Oval
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Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we’re twitchy with regret and self-loathing, advertisers blare, “New Year, new you,”...
