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Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
Latin music is full of directives: “oye cómo va,” “óyelo que te conviene,” “oye bien cómo es.” Listen up and listen well. Many of my first history lessons came...
Documentaries of Dissent
“No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see. Source link
The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank
In “A Wonderful World,” a jukebox bio-musical about Louis Armstrong, the book writer Aurin Squire crams sixty years into the plot, which, predictably, flattens most interactions into an outline....
The Gorgeous Mumbai Rhapsody of “All We Imagine as Light”
It’s tedious to talk about the weather, but “All We Imagine as Light” compels me to at least attempt an exception. From the moment the movie begins, on a...
Do You Have Hope?
Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people...
The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
The venue was the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Duggal Greenhouse, all thirty-five thousand square feet of it. Hillary and Bernie debated here in 2016. The building used to be a...
Haruki Murakami on Rethinking Early Work
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” is also a return to earlier works: a novella he published in Japan, in 1980, when he was thirty-one,...
Into the Phones of Teens
About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of...
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” Transcends the Holiday-Movie Genre
It wasn’t on my list of likely occurrences that a nostalgic and sentimental holiday movie would provide some of the year’s sharpest characterizations on film and also boast a...
The End of Kamala Harris’s Campaign
At nearly every Harris rally I attended, whether at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago or at an arena in Savannah, Georgia, a lone protester would stand up in...
