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Of all of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song, Sufjan Stevens’s “Mystery of Love,” from “Call Me by Your Name,” was the only entry promising little in the way of absolution. “But love is stronger, stronger than…
Oscars 2018 Read our coverage of this year’s nominated films. Hello, and welcome to The New Yorker’s Oscar Live Blog, 2018 edition. While tonight will not be as arduous as a solitary journey across Antartica, we have readied ourselves with…
The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose movie “Faces Places” is up for Best Documentary tonight, is not only the oldest Oscar nominee in history; she is also older than the Oscars themselves. She was born, in Brussels, in May of…
In 1790 Edmund Burke published his classic polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. The work has served ever since as a benchmark, especially for conservatives, in judging new political phenomena. A natural question in such circumstances is: what would…
A lot of folks don’t read as much as they used to. In 2014, Pew reported that nearly 25 percent of American adults hadn’t read a single book in the past year. And “the number of non-book readers,” The Atlantic…
In a world where the only stories that can be told and retold are Harry Potter, Star Wars or Star Trek, Netflix has been in the forefront of generating the most exciting, creative, and daring new TV content. Their sci-fi…
