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It’s like the old saying goes: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”  Actually, as sayings go, this one is not so old. But it is…

Photograph by Alessandra Leimer In 2018, the singer and songwriter Marlon Williams was touring in support of his sophomore album, “Make Way for Love,” a moody and baroque work that sounds as if Elvis scored a David Lynch film. “Make…

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday, at the age of ninety-six. During her seventy-year-long reign, the Queen presided over the dissolution of the British Empire. She was there for the creation of the European Union—and for Brexit. She was there…

In 1977, the great critic Serge Daney presented a week of screenings of new movies at the now defunct Bleecker Street Cinema, under the aegis of the enduringly influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, of which he was co-editor. The…