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A Sleater-Kinney Album Mutated by Grief

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like many great recording studios, Flora Recording & Playback, in Portland, Oregon, is unspectacular from the outside. A brick building situated on a moderately busy street in between two residential neighborhoods,…

The Eps-Files

A new batch of unsealed documents holds new puzzles for those who want to believe. Unsealed by a federal court in New York: The first two tranches of documents pertaining to Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against the now deceased financier and…

Hittite America

I looked into the Bronze Age and found it eerily familiar. Credit: Carole Raddato When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in…

Anatomy of Another Fall

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the French director Justine Triet’s first feature, “Age of Panic,” screened in New York—in 2014, the year after its Cannes première—it felt as if the movie might herald a new…

‘Be All You Can Be’ and the TikTok Mutiny

The crisis of military readiness is a predictable result of the culture of liberalism. (Bumble Dee/Shutterstock) With a recruiting slogan like “Be All You Can Be,” it’s no wonder the Army is enduring a “Tik Tok Mutiny.” When the military—a…

What’s So Bad About Reconciliation?

Herman Melville understood both the horrors of slavery and the bonds between countrymen. Should he be canceled? Credit: Dominionart There is a theory of the ultimate fate of the universe, lesser known than the “The Big Bang,” referred to as…

Could They Be Ghosts?

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Talia Ryder Says Yes to Adventure

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first time I became aware of the actress Talia Ryder was while watching the 2020 independent film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” In the movie, directed by Eliza Hittman, Ryder plays…