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Adrian Tomine’s “Eternal Youth”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Regardless of parents’ attempts to be cool, there comes an age at which their children find everything about them mortifying. For the cover of the June 24, 2024, issue, the cartoonist…

Restaurant Review: One Weird Night at Frog Club

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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. Even if I wanted to go back to…

Not Longing for the Longest Day

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TAC‘s weekend correspondent is now a creature of the night. Credit: Moritz Frankenberg/Picture Alliance via Getty Images “In two weeks it’ll be the longest day of the year,” says Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. “Do you always…

Bela Borsodi’s Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Nothing describes children’s drawing in general better than the term realism,” Georges-Henri Luquet wrote in his classic study, “Le Dessin Enfantin” (“Children’s Drawings”), from 1927. Fourteen years earlier, Luquet—who also wrote…

A Succession Battle Over America’s Largest Ren Faire

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are few filmmakers more curious about the emotional lives of the elderly than the wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim. In 2020, Oppenheim, then twenty-four years old, released “Some Kind of Heaven,”…

New Play Plumbs the Personal and Political Civil War

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Tom Klingenstein’s Our American Queen runs June 11–29. In the summer of 1862, Katherine (Kate) Chase, 22, was the toast of Washington. “The Belle of the North,” she hosted parties that brought together the leading Republican politicians and the Union’s…