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Hotter and Hotter
Living through the onset of rapid global warming involves learning to roll with the punches. Increasingly, those are quite real and painful—this year saw, again, an accelerating toll of...
The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse
In the room devoted to the archives of Lucian Freud in London’s National Portrait Gallery, a strikingly tender painting depicts a young woman with waifish features, blond tresses, and...
Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him
Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over all, perhaps because the camera is an unflinching...
Paul Schrader’s All-Time Favorite Novels
Paul Schrader, whose latest film, “Oh, Canada,” is based on Russell Banks’s semi-autobiographical novel “Foregone,” is no stranger to literary adaptations. In 1985, he co-wrote and directed “Mishima: A...
The Year Creators Took Over
In early October, the No. 5 most popular podcast on Spotify, above the Times’ “The Daily” and just behind “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was a month-old show called “Talk...
Are You Overreacting?
How to survive when provocations are a natural—and inescapable—part of life. Source link
The Berlin Philharmonic Doesn’t Need a Star Conductor
When, in 2009, the Berlin Philharmonic launched the Digital Concert Hall, a streaming-video platform for its concerts, the orchestra had no particular need to bolster its reputation. For decades,...
How the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade
On Christmas Day in 1872, the atmosphere was restive among the forty female residents of a medical institution on the outskirts of St. Louis. The women were patients, not...
Mike Leigh’s Love Affair with Real Life
The British realist director Mike Leigh loves the term “character actor,” which he uses often and with zeal. To him, it’s a term of great respect, meaning a performer...
What Does a Translator Do?
Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men...
