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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, Ross McDonnell, the Irish filmmaker and photographer, died while swimming in the ocean at Fort Tilden beach, in Queens, New York. Ross was forty-four, a giant as a filmmaker…

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…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with her wife…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The theatre season of 2023 is, in some ways, a season of the past. Some of this year’s Broadway productions actually premièred downtown last year, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,”…

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hollywood movies have a problem with intellectual endeavor; just look at the thinly imagined inner lives of the titular protagonists of “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro.” But Ava DuVernay’s new movie, “Origin,” a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the winter of 2020, on one of my aimless, frigid quarantine walks around my silent neighborhood, I remember being struck by a thought: did a medieval European peasant know that…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Just north of the city center of Bordeaux, on the bank of the wide, sluggish Garonne River, lies the Cité du Vin, a spectacular museum dedicated to the global history of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Five months after Salman Rushdie suffered a near-fatal stabbing during an event at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, in August, 2022, he sat for a photo portrait by Richard…