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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1997, the British photographer Richard Billingham published “Ray’s a Laugh,” a landmark book that launched him from a shelf-stacking job at a Birmingham Kwik Save to the art-world stratosphere. The…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of desert people. We see…

The Republicans may be acting without principles, but it’s only good politics. When I was 24, my parents sat me down and confessed, with a heavy heart, that due to infertility, I was begotten by a random sperm donor via…

Americans are underrating the cynicism that has taken hold of the country—if the reaction to a deranged activist’s suicide is any indication. The disturbing images of the U.S. airman Aaron Bushnell lighting himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli embassy…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At one point in “Io Capitano,” a deeply moving drama about an odyssey through unknown lands, the Italian director Matteo Garrone undermines his own realism, to startlingly lyrical effect. Seydou (Seydou…

Fellini’s Satyricon comes to the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine. Credit: sirtravelalot There is a very easy way to eliminate death on the roads: prohibit all traffic. Unfortunately, such a policy would have effects other than the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The city is full of unexpected sights, but few are more endearing than a row of wobbly preschoolers, holding onto a rope while they walk with their teachers. For the cover…

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. Diners are enveloped in velvet at the West…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the photographer Juanita Escobar was nineteen years old, she left her native city of Cali, Colombia, to document a nature reserve in the country’s Eastern Plains, known as Los Llanos…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a boy, I got into the habit of watching my father eat. Our dinner table was round, and, on the nights when it was all of us, four kids and…