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James Graham Thinks We’re in a Crisis of Storytelling
The brutalist Royal National Theatre building, which sits aggressively on the south side of the River Thames, in London, is a “love it or loudly despise it” kind of...
Telling the Story of Ethiopia’s Red Terror Through a Family Artifact
“I often find a lot of documentaries and films especially pertaining to war and/or Africa, to be shrouded with a bleakness and hopelessness,” the filmmaker Ruth Hunduma says. “That...
The Crypto Betting Platform Predicting a Trump Win
The Web site Polymarket is something like a stock exchange for current events. The platform allows users to place bets on future outcomes ranging from who will win the...
The Megachurch That Tried to Confront Racism
When it comes to Christianity, scale often matters: the larger the data set, the worse the outlook on any number of axes, from membership to charitable giving, while the...
“Anora” Is More for Show Than for Substance
The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing. Many of the most original filmmakers, especially those working outside the factorylike order of classic-era studios, have devised...
What Can Memoirs by Supreme Court Justices Teach Us?
“Fools” is one of Neil Simon’s lesser plays. It involves a schoolmaster who, in some imaginary past, is sent to a Ukrainian village whose residents are burdened with a...
The Unexpected Pleasures of a Dirty Soda
The other day, while exploring Saratoga Springs, Utah, a small city between Provo and Salt Lake, I wandered into an outpost of Deseret Book, a chain of religious-goods stores...
Eric Drooker’s “Crushing Wealth”
The cover of the October 28, 2024, Money special issue, is Eric Drooker’s fortieth for the magazine. The native New Yorker, who illustrated Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” sees the financial...
