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What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden”
Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite. “I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this,” he said of the multigenerational epic, which follows two families in the author’s agrarian home town of Salinas, California. Published in…
Read MoreHow “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma
But Chee’s first-person, present-tense narration differs from most in being, in a seeming paradox, retrospective. This isn’t exactly an innovation: the modernists experimented with it, and it’s not uncommon in French; one might think of Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover,” which is omnivorous in its tenses and makes much use of retrospective present. And, in the…
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
The novel is set in an America partitioned into two factions: the Dakota Membership, presumably made up of North and South Dakota, and Still United, an agglomeration of other states of the former U.S. The Dakota Membership, ruled by President Damian Paxton, has devolved into a tightly controlled society organized around surveillance and an elaborate…
Read MoreArthur Jafa’s Odyssey of Appropriation
A still from “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death” (2016). I was reminded of “2001” in the show’s opening rooms. In Kubrick’s prologue, an ape realizes that a bone can be used as a weapon, then flings it into the sky, where it pinwheels and suddenly becomes a spaceship, the narrative leaping forward…
Read MorePeter de Sève’s “Lapdog”
For the cover of the October 12, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève depicts a scene around Central Park’s reservoir, a cherished spot in a city where access to exercise and the outdoors is at a premium. “There is nothing like going for a long run,” de Sève said. “Unfortunately, my knees no longer…
Read MoreWhy Is Illness So Hard to Write About?
Yet the strange disparity Woolf identified persists. We have grown much more willing to put the body on the page without necessarily becoming much better at putting illness there. It isn’t that literature has ever been shy about death, that final health crisis. The canon abounds with wounds, murders, consumptions, and deathbeds. Real people, however,…
Read MoreTrudie’s Tavern Is Equal Parts Sleekness and Schmaltz
If you wanted Trudie’s to be romantic, as the pink and the linens might imply it to be, there’s a romantic restaurant in there for you: a dirty Martini, a plate of oysters, a lusty strip steak dripping in bone-marrow butter. But it’s also a casual restaurant, good for a burger and a beer with…
Read MoreLet Cathy Ames Be a Monster
Charles is no stranger to whores, but pure-hearted Adam immediately succumbs to the woman without a past upon whom he can project his own dreams and wishes. Cathy will be his wife. They will move to California, to the Salinas Valley, and plant the land to make a modern Eden. They will have children—two sons,…
Read More“The Swan” Gets a Superficial Reckoning
A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another in a beauty pageant, fails to grapple with the show’s cruelty, or with the culture that enabled it. Source link
Read MoreWhy Adults Are Playing with Toys
Eventually, I met a prominent kid-ult. His name is Tristan Wigglesworth, but on YouTube, where he posts videos about his collection of Funko Pops—vinyl figurines of anything and everything in pop culture—he goes by Top Pops, and has an audience of more than three million subscribers. Tristan, who is twenty-five, was wearing sweatpants and a…
Read MoreHighlights from Week Two of the New York Film Festival
“Red Rocks” is no “Bugsy Malone”; these children aren’t imitating adults. The story and dialogue, written by Dumont, are carefully constructed, but his child actors experience the scripted events freely, in terms of their own personalities and reactions. That’s what Dumont does with adult actors, too, in his greatest films—whether working with amateurs, as he…
Read MoreJustine Kurland’s Photographs Keep Us on Edge
For much of her career, the progressive artist Kelela has toyed with the idea of genre in an intuitive way, hardwiring electronic music into the DNA of an R. & B. sound. Across several records, she has conscientiously adapted her music to fit its context, letting both margin and intention dictate its immediate form. Her…
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