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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You could write dozens of obituaries a year for beloved New York restaurants that have shuttered their doors. One of the things I love most about this city is how regenerative…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Snatch Adams, a six-foot-tall walking vagina working as a red-nose clown, would usually be entertaining folks on the vaudevillian “Borsch” Belt comedy circuit—“borsch” as in (a)bort(ion)—but extremists have been closing Planned…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new retrospective of the Dutch painter Frans Hals at the National Gallery in London—the first major exhibition of his work since 1989—is a slightly nervous event for the most talented…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In early 2019, I travelled to Afghanistan to investigate the deaths of my mother and sister three decades earlier—a personal search for answers. While seeking out distant relatives in a remote…

The landscape of online multiplayer gaming has been graced with several legends, but few have left an indelible mark like Counter-Strike 1.6. Among the array of versions that catered to diverse player preferences, there stands the Counter-Strike 1.6 Clean Edition—a…

10 Rillington Place serves as a reminder that all life is precious. Most horror films operate according to the principles of a rollercoaster. The filmmakers lull the audience into a state of anticipatory complacency and then administer a series of starts,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In a year of impressive débuts, the first feature by the writer and director Raven Jackson, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” which opens Friday, is the best so far. It’s…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fiction Studios, a recording venue in Farringdon, central London, is a study in scrupulous unkemptness. At first glance, it looks like the kind of secondhand bookshop you don’t see anymore—shelves overflowing…

Any solution to America’s besetting social problems must begin at the neighborhood level. Credit: Andrea Izzotti In the fall of 2021, a group of former Hill staffers and current think tank scholars gathered in a small room in Old Town…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Robert Brustein died, at ninety-six, he concluded not one but four stunning careers. A critic at The New Republic, off and on, for more than forty years, he was a…