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“No Other Land” Puts a Palestinian Neighborhood on the World Map
The documentary “No Other Land” combines first-person filmmaking with journalistic observation, experience with analysis, to depict demolitions in the Palestinian area of Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, by Israeli forces,...
Scary Movies for Spooky Season
Rachel SymeStaff writerThere is little better, when the weather turns just chilly enough to necessitate a big scarf and a leather jacket, than to duck into a movie theatre...
A Hundred-and-Nineteen-Year-Old Book That Explains Eric Adams
Mayor Eric Adams says he plans to write a memoir about the corruption scandal currently engulfing his administration. “All this is going in my book,” he told reporters at...
Rage, Revenge, and Recovery Battle It Out in Virginie Despentes’s #MeToo Novel
On March 1, 2020, roughly two weeks before the COVID lockdown began in France, the French writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes published an essay in the left-leaning paper Libération....
Jennifer Doudna on the Brave New World Being Ushered In by Gene Editing
In 2012, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier developed a method for using RNA-guided proteins to edit specific sections of DNA. Their innovation—for which the two...
The City Where Paint Became Art
Chop down a poplar tree. Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes....
How I Fell Back in Love with iPhone Photography
There’s a Japanese word, komorebi, that describes beams of light and dappled shadows that result when the sun shines through trees. When I take my dog on walks around...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative
It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first give an opinion column. “A live coffin,” a former newspaper colleague of mine...
Rachel Bloom Has a Funny Song About Death
At the start of 2020, the comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Bloom was riding high. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical TV show that she had co-created and starred in, had...
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