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How Louise Bonnet Learned to Stop Thinking

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Louise Bonnet’s large-scale paintings depict spectacular, Surrealist-tinged visions in which distended, grotesque bodies take center stage. Figures with engorged limbs, teeny heads, conical breasts, and curled appendages hover on the spectrum…

Indian Blood – The American Conservative

We can no longer indulge the fantasies and false histories of those who hate this country and its people. Credit: The Sutro Library Like Elizabeth Warren, my family has legends. It was always believed that my great grandmother was part…

You Can’t Get In: An Evening at Rao’s

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I call ahead. A recording announces that the reservation book is closed but doesn’t mention walk-ins. After putting on some makeup, a silk shirt, and heels, I begin my nearly two-hour…

The Best Jokes of 2023

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A comedy routine often benefits from a straight man. When Carl Reiner died, in 2020, the Times noted that, as the foil to the likes of Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks,…

The Intimate Reality of the J.F.K. Assassination

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the annals of American time, the November 22nd that happened sixty years ago today still casts a very long shadow. It is a cliché, but true nonetheless, that certain events…

Lahaina Hallelujah

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André 3000 Disrupts Our Sense of Time

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last week, André Benjamin, best known as André 3000, one-half of the hip-hop duo OutKast, finally released his début solo album. Over the past decade, Benjamin, who is forty-eight, has chosen…

Why Can’t We Quit “The Morning Show”?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The enduring appeal of “The Morning Show” has become one of the great mysteries of modern television. The Apple TV+ series, which stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as onetime hosts…

Shifting Sympathies in “Spain”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The actress…