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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The sweetness of historical vindication pervades “Winner,” Susanna Fogel’s bio-pic about Reality Winner, who, in 2018, pleaded guilty to retaining and transmitting national-defense information to the media, while employed by a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On August 31st, Jennifer Lopez posted sixteen pictures for her two hundred and fifty-one million followers on Instagram, under the gnomic caption “Oh, it was a summer.” Coming in the wake…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1977, the artist, musician, and producer Brian Eno was in Berlin, working with David Bowie on the album that would become “Heroes.” They’d been collaborating on a song in an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On August 24th, Pavel Durov, the billionaire Russian founder of Telegram, a messaging app and social network, was detained after his private plane landed outside of Paris, from Baku, Azerbaijan. At…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story El País, arguably the most prestigious Spanish-language news organization of the past half century, and whose slogan is “The Global Newspaper,” has just made one of the more seemingly obvious moves…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some filmmakers have remade their own films, others have made adapted works they created in other media, many have made films about filmmaking, and many more have dramatized their private lives.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish-born photographer Andrew McConnell first started going to Kazakhstan because he wanted to see a Soyuz space capsule fall out of the sky. At the time, in 2015, the capsule,…
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. The shiny BP gas station that occupies the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer who secretly desires to be a writer. One day, after completing construction of the world’s…