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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What’s the problem with talking heads? What other part of the body do critics want to see talking? I’m suspicious of movies that rely on silence as a sign of mystique;…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My first memory in life is of my father moving out. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a carriage house on a quiet, dead-end lane in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The documentarian Nicola Fegg came across Valeria’s videos, and found them “completely charming—and also really weird.” When Russian bombs struck Ukraine two years ago, Valeria Shashenok, a twenty-year-old aspiring fashion photographer,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Cindy Sherman, the grande dame of the Pictures Generation, has a new show up at Hauser & Wirth’s recently opened space in SoHo—a collection of wacky, digitally collaged character studies, which…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.” The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design, concerned rubber…

The legal landscape for home births varies by state, leaving some moms outside the law. Credit: Jared Cummings After two years working in a labor and delivery unit as a surgical tech, Carlie Smith knew she didn’t want to give…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 26, 2024, issue, the artist Marcellus Hall set out to celebrate the pleasures of the season—from skating and skiing to cozying up with a book.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I’m embarrassed about the fluid situation,” the comedian Jenny Slate began, apologizing for her cold. We were talking on Zoom, and she was some three thousand miles away, in Los Angeles,…

State of the Union: Revisiting Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories titled In Our Time. Growing up, I didn’t have enough of an appreciation for short stories. I thought the thicker the book, the more knowledge within. Even more than…

A former professional wrestler is modeling good neighborship and the supremacy of the local in Knox County, Tennessee. Credit: Gage Skidmore The Bible says Cain killed his brother Abel and then founded the first city. Today, WWE Hall of Fame…