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Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A mother sits in the front seat of a car, her tanned and freckled face glowing; her daughter, owlish and opaque behind her glasses, stares at her mother’s cheek, transfixed, as…

Lyle Ashton Harris’s Scrapbooks of the Self

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The title of Lyle Ashton Harris’s current exhibition at the Queens Museum, “Our First and Last Love,” is an abbreviated version of a fortune-cookie message: our first and last love is . . .…

How the Fridge Changed Flavor

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was the most talked-about meal in the United States. In the weeks leading up to the luncheon, its organizers received so many requests for seats that they switched the venue…

“Flipside” Is a Treasure Trove of Music and Memory

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Chris Wilcha’s new documentary, “Flipside,” is easy to summarize, but it defies summary nonetheless, because it advances by a lurching, associative method that leaves fault lines on the surface of its…

What Doge Taught Me About the Internet

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early twenty-tens, one cottage industry in digital journalism was the unmasking of Internet memes: a journalist would identify the source of a popular image or joke just as one…

The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1974, Martin Scorsese was a year removed from his breakthrough film—the semi-autobiographical “Mean Streets,” about a young man in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood who is sinking into the quicksand…