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“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson
In “The Uprising,” Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and…
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Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game
In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.
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Can A.I. “Go Rogue”?
In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing…
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The Sartorial Riches of the Silent-Film Era
What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.
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“My Brilliant Career” Is the Best Show of the Summer
“My Brilliant Career” is a fizzy and intelligent pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel—and the sleeper hit…
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“Favorite Bodies,” by Lydia Davis
I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation.
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In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones
Joe Swanberg’s first feature in six years, “The Sun Never Sets,” turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a philosophical experiment.
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off…
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?
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Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
In a new story collection, the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a discourse that can lean toward self-seriousness.
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What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce
With “Food Is a Feeling,” the cookbook author joins a lineage of writers who have explored the appetites of the newly unmarried.
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The Art of American Sophistication
How striving, self-invention, and charm became America’s national style.
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Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
In Grandmaster Flash’s new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how hip-hop began.
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Helen, Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners.
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The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely,…
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The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a…
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A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession
The liberal-arts college Oberlin has barely won any football games in the past few years. Still, one senior argued, the school and its…
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How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes, with images of overturned cars, collisions, and a…
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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind…
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The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide.
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The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means”
“By Any Means,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in…