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Frederick Wiseman’s Real-Life Epics
“Low Tide,” 2023. Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann GalleryMary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse. Vivid and wild...
“Hugh Jackman LIVE” and “Beckett Briefs” Make a Spectacle of Time’s Passage
In “Hugh Jackman LIVE, from New York with Love,” the Oscar-nominated, multiple Tony Award-winning Marvel mega-super-über-ultrastar can’t seem to get over the fact that he has his own show...
The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The second hour of “Gone with the Wind,” the bold, almost brazenly romantic Civil War epic that won ten Academy Awards, is largely a portrait of hell. “The skies...
What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript...
Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger”
For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt...
Catherine Breillat’s Unsettling Cinema of Desire
In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with their parents near the seaside. The older sister, Elena, is...
The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish...
Tom Brady, Armchair Quarterback
A few months ago, when Tom Brady was beginning his career as an N.F.L. commentator for Fox Sports, a commercial aired. It begins with Brady, his face all angles,...
David Lynch’s (Possible) Realism
In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in his late twenties and had just finished shooting his...
