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Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar
On a recent visit, Clemente Bar’s cozy space seemed to be populated mostly by well-employed millennial gastronomes, plus a smattering of Eleven Madison Park regulars who were discernible by...
Bearing Witness to American Exploits
The book begins with photographs from van Agtmael’s early years as a war photographer, covering the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, which show the routine violence of two worlds...
“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary...
A Woman Wonders If She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot”
In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. Source link
“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour. Dolours and Marian Price (Lola Petticrew and...
“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
It may be bright and getting brighter on Broadway these days, but Off Broadway the shadows are lengthening. Desperation-level real-estate pressures are pushing established theatre companies out of spaces...
Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and a professor at Harvard Law School. She won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello,”...
How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music
Three-quarters of the way through Richard Linklater’s 1990 film “Slacker,” an accomplice to a botched robbery strolls past a concrete lot covered in AstroTurf, on top of which a...
How Elon Musk Rebranded Trump
By the end of Donald Trump’s campaign for a second Presidency, he was part of a package deal. The Trump ticket represented not only Trump and his running mate,...
“Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property Loss
“It was a piece of heaven,” Agnes Marshall Blackwell says about the house she grew up in, situated in Morganza, Maryland. She recalls a little white house, surrounded by...
