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The New Yorker Oscars 2018 Live Blog |

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…

Agnès Varda Is Still Going Places |

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…

Is Poland In the Grip of a Burkean Battle?

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…