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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last December, a factory in the Chinese province of Hebei called Donghua Jinlong posted a marketing video to TikTok showing aerial clips of its campus set to a jaunty tune. A…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, as the pandemic was loosening its grip on the world, and as I started to recover from the aftereffects of a botched childhood circumcision that had returned to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story  Watch J. J. Kandel’s film, “Sparring Partners.” “How do people meet each other?” the director J. J. Kandel asked me, bluntly. “How do you meet people?” The most common answers might…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One day last year in Paris, I went to the Musée de Cluny, a temple to the tactile esoterica of medieval France. I remember seeing braids of wooden hair, a marble…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The subject of “Civil War” is so clickbaity that it’s easy to forget that it’s a movie, with the form and the aesthetics of a movie, rather than a think piece…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour. Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque,” from 1814, bestows her with an anatomically…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Of all the ingredients in my pantry, my jar of vanilla is my most treasured. It’s not the ordinary kind of vanilla that you can find at any grocery store; I’m…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I often receive condolence-type calls, e-mails, and texts about Haiti. Many of these messages are in response to the increasingly dire news in the press, some of which echoes what many…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At a glance, not much appears to connect Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” and Theda Hammel’s “Stress Positions.” Baig’s feature, her third as a writer and director (after “1 Night” and…

I’ve been going back to eastern Kentucky for over a decade. Since 2016, something there has changed. Kevin Rogers has five rules: love God, love others, don’t do dumb things, don’t die, and “Get ye, therefore, over thyself.” “Roger’s Rules”…