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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…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I think for both blind children and seeing children, imagination and fantasy are important in constructing play worlds,” Philipp Schaeffer said. “What is striking is how different these play worlds look…

Political theology isn’t helpful for coalition-building. Credit: Consolidated News Photos There is an ideological battle taking place on the right. Old-guard Republicans, formed in the era from Goldwater to Trump, seem to have taken certain political tenets as principles that…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Turning toward the past is value-neutral. I’m apt to use the word “nostalgia” pejoratively, but the wish to turn back the hands of time is no worse than any other; with…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To begin, let me tell you a story. There were once two jackals: Karataka, whose name meant “cautious,” and Damanaka, whose name meant “daring.” They were in the second rank of…

Perhaps more will be emboldened to hold their alma maters accountable on these and other matters. Credit: f11photo The son of a railroader from the Ozarks of Arkansas and a nurse’s aide from Harlan County Kentucky, I have no ties…