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In her new book Hannah’s Children, economist Catherine Pakaluk says yes. We are no longer a nation that thinks much about posterity. Which is why the words of “Hannah,” the pseudonym for a Jewish mother of seven whose story animates…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s such a lovely photograph—if only it were real. The occasion is Mothering Sunday, the U.K. equivalent of Mother’s Day, which fell this year in March. Mom sits at the center,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Over a thirty-year career, Alan Cumming has been a stage star, a cabaret performer, a memorist, a night-club owner, and a political activist. Animating many of these endeavors are his talents…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Confessional pop music has become freighted over the years by a kind of heightened expectation. Fans see more of pop stars now, in the quasi-candid precincts of social media, which means…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Both Charles Frank, the documentary’s director, and Manny Padilla, its subject, are remarkably honest and empathetic. Manny Padilla, a teen-age musician living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, faces intense fears and intrusive thoughts.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The ruins of American invention have been recently resurrected in a former textile mill in Wilmington, Delaware. The Henry Clay Mill, now better known as Hagley Museum and Library Visitor Center,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s an hour after “Oppenheimer” has won Best Picture, the all-but-preordained climax of the ninety-sixth Academy Awards, and I’m trying to find my way from the red carpet to the street.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The reasons for the success of “Oppenheimer” at the Oscars—thirteen nominations and seven wins—are self-evident. The movie is about a serious historical and political subject, and it made a zillion dollars.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This wasn’t the first year that the Academy Awards fell on the second Sunday in March, forcing the good citizens of Hollywood to manage their hair appointments and limousine pickups around…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the March 18, 2024, issue, the artist and animator Peter de Sève illustrated the way we now experience seasons: all at once. But not everyone is upset…