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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In June, 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, an English rector, collector of folk songs, and author of a truly prodigious quantity of prose, was putting the finishing touches on “A Book of the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Japanese writer and director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi operates in a key of seductively textured realism: present-day stories, crystalline images, unadorned performances, quotidian intimacies. And yet there are moments in his new…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff 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. Charlie Atlas…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tomoaki Hamatsu became one of the world’s first reality-TV stars when, as an aspiring comedian in his early twenties, he spent fifteen months naked and alone, surviving on sheer luck. The…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I don’t watch tennis matches,” Luca Guadagnino, the director of “Challengers,” a movie about tennis players, recently said in an interview with Little White Lies, a film magazine. “It’s quite boring…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nilay Patel, the editor-in-chief of the digital technology publication The Verge, has lately taken to describing theverge.com as “the last Web site on earth.” It’s kind of a joke—there are, of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Luck and art are clearest in retrospect. I arrived at Harvard as most eighteen-year-olds arrive at Harvard: with a grandiose sense of endeavor and a below-average understanding of the way that…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was eleven o’clock, and Meadow Street, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was just starting to wake up for the night when a Welsh woman named Emma Kirby approached some bouncers who…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Faith Ringgold, an artist known for her narrative quilts, died on April 13th, at her home in Englewood, New Jersey, at the age of ninety-three. Her work came to be lauded…

Peter Rabbit’s world is cozy but rife with peril. The Morgan Library & Museum February 23–June 9 Like a lot of kids with discerning parents, when I was growing up, I owned a box set containing all twenty-three of Beatrix…