Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Love to the Max.” One day in late February of 2022, Amber Briggle received a phone call from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It was a caseworker,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s some quietly ferocious, fiercely expressive dialogue in the playwright Annie Baker’s first feature, “Janet Planet,” and several moments of imaginative sublimity. The movie is a passionate and finely nuanced view…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At any point in the day, I can open my closet, pull out a swimsuit, squeeze into it, pose for a selfie in my full-length mirror, and broadcast the image to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The notion of having to one day repent for one’s trespasses gives even the godless a fright, we assume. A kicker like “You’ll regret this!” is redoubled by the certitude of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Diane von Furstenberg has been putting on The Diane von Furstenberg Show for something like half a century. Act I began, roughly, in 1969, when Diane Halfin, twenty-two years old and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In my childhood home, a modest, low-slung rectangle in eastern Washington, my mother was a bedroom away from me when she experienced her last moment. I remember standing in front of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story October, 2021, a plane bound for Belarus. Among the passengers are a Syrian couple, Bashir (Jalal Altawil) and Amina (Dalia Naous), who are travelling with their three children and Bashir’s father…
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…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Walking to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “To Be Invisible.” The documentary short “To Be Invisible,” directed by Myah Overstreet, follows two young Black mothers, Alexis and Kellie, as they work to reunite their families. Alexis and…