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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Baseball culminates every year in the sinking light of autumn evenings, crisp weather that excites the heart and offers clarity on the latest long season. This has been a signal year…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past July, Sinna Nasseri was commissioned by The New Yorker to photograph the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee. It was the sort of assignment he had undertaken before—in the past…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Web site Polymarket is something like a stock exchange for current events. The platform allows users to place bets on future outcomes ranging from who will win the Presidential election…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A reformist Pope who boldly leads the Catholic Church into controversial changes should be played by an actor of commanding presence. In “Conclave,” there is such a Pope—he’s seen early in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing. Many of the most original filmmakers, especially those working outside the factorylike order of classic-era studios, have devised highly personalized…

Autumn is a wonderful sartorial season. Credit: image via Shutterstock Sometime in the middle of August, just as the weather has become sweltering, the sound of crickets has become deafening, and the aroma of cut grass has become incessant, my…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in, either instantly…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Remember the Trompe l’Oeil Sweatpants from Balenciaga? The nearly twelve-hundred-dollar heather-gray drawstring pants that seemed ordinary, innocent of fashion, until the shopper, scanning upward, caught the plaid trick happening at the…

Dixie Liquor’s days may be numbered as college tastes turn to weed. Credit: image via Shutterstock Dixie Liquor is the oldest spirit shop in Washington, D.C., but by the beginning of next year, it may become just another dope depot.…

Tony Bennett did it his way and changed UVA Basketball Forever.  Fighting back tears as best he could, University of Virginia’s head basketball coach, Tony Bennett, quoted the late Christian missionary Jim Elliot during a Friday press conference to formally…