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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Both Charles Frank, the documentary’s director, and Manny Padilla, its subject, are remarkably honest and empathetic. Manny Padilla, a teen-age musician living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, faces intense fears and intrusive thoughts.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The ruins of American invention have been recently resurrected in a former textile mill in Wilmington, Delaware. The Henry Clay Mill, now better known as Hagley Museum and Library Visitor Center,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s an hour after “Oppenheimer” has won Best Picture, the all-but-preordained climax of the ninety-sixth Academy Awards, and I’m trying to find my way from the red carpet to the street.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The reasons for the success of “Oppenheimer” at the Oscars—thirteen nominations and seven wins—are self-evident. The movie is about a serious historical and political subject, and it made a zillion dollars.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This wasn’t the first year that the Academy Awards fell on the second Sunday in March, forcing the good citizens of Hollywood to manage their hair appointments and limousine pickups around…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the March 18, 2024, issue, the artist and animator Peter de Sève illustrated the way we now experience seasons: all at once. But not everyone is upset…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Few people in New York City understand pasta…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first enclosed shopping mall appeared in the United States in 1956, in Southdale, outside Minneapolis. The photographer Stephen DiRado was born a year later, and came of age as Southdale’s…

State of the Union: If the once mighty British state is unable to restore public order, perhaps targeted counter-force from the public will restore equilibrium. If you have not seen the bloodcurdling video from Trinity College, Cambridge, you should. Everyone…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In her short story “Five Signs of Disturbance,” Lydia Davis writes of a woman who is “frightened”: She cannot always decide whether what seems to her a sign of disturbance should…