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What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals
The industry didn’t forget, exactly, but it did move on. Galliano spent two years out of the spotlight, studying with the Rabbi Barry Marcus and meeting with Abraham Foxman,...
“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson
The rebels have their own self-appointed religious authority, though, in the figure of John Ball (a fierce Jamie Bell), Tyler’s radicalized second-in-command. Ball is a priest who has been...
Can A.I. “Go Rogue”?
In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a...
In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones
This attention to dramatic framework is a logical extension of Swanberg’s prior body of work. All of his films are largely rooted in improvised performances—he creates stories, plots them...
Five Books for Lingerie Lovers
When Jennifer Wilson set out to, in her words, “investigate the political implications of cleavage,” for a piece in this week’s issue about how conservatives are trying to take...
Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Petras, the bookstore owner in Toronto, said that she was generally comfortable selling to undercover buyers, but that she would never sell them a book with interesting marginalia or...
The Art of American Sophistication
Posnock is also strong on what someone must have named the Grant-Leach dichotomy, and he generally lands on the right people and the right points. He has a flair...
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
Anna, in Flash’s telling, was a kind of verbal virtuoso, a proto-rapper who rallied her similarly talented girlfriends to provide lines for the largely male m.c.s who rhymed over...
Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy
Drawings, like dreams, can often feel open-ended, prompting a multiplicity of thoughts. As painting’s poor cousins, they usually command a lesser fee in the art market, and their position...