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What Willie Mays Meant

What Willie Mays Meant 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Everyone has seen it. In slightly decayed black-and-white footage, a center fielder, wearing the number 24, turns his back on a well-struck baseball and, apparently without looking and using some weirdly…

“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur

“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur 14

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic research on which they rely, but journalists rarely feature in the…

Andrew O’Hagan’s Bonfire of the Vanities

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story ​​In the last years of the nineteenth century, the social reformer Charles Booth set out to create a record of working-class life in Victorian London. “Life and Labour of the People…

“Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings

“Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings 18

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The best-loved Pixar movies are often spoken of in terms of their tried-and-true emotional impact, how reliably they reduce us to quivering lips and choked-back sobs, year after year, rewatch after…

Adrian Tomine’s “Eternal Youth”

Adrian Tomine’s “Eternal Youth” 20

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Regardless of parents’ attempts to be cool, there comes an age at which their children find everything about them mortifying. For the cover of the June 24, 2024, issue, the cartoonist…

Restaurant Review: One Weird Night at Frog Club

Restaurant Review: One Weird Night at Frog Club 28

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. Even if I wanted to go back to…

Not Longing for the Longest Day

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TAC‘s weekend correspondent is now a creature of the night. Credit: Moritz Frankenberg/Picture Alliance via Getty Images “In two weeks it’ll be the longest day of the year,” says Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. “Do you always…