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“Once Upon a Time in Harlem” Is a Film for the Ages
The Harlem Renaissance—the subject that everyone had gathered to discuss—is described in the film by Major as the first time that Black people were recognized as creative people; by...
How Young Entrepreneurs Can Optimize Their Health
An essential part of a healthy business is a healthy body–if your body isn’t running optimally, neither is your business. In the daily grind, young entrepreneurs must be conscious...
We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow
The Met’s stress on quartz gun and fern—that is, on the rayographs—is a welcome departure from Man Ray’s familiar cast of naked and famous people. His first batch, “Champs...
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of...
The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the...
The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry. Source link
The Four Horsemen Team Rides Again
As at Four Horsemen, where an oeuf mayonnaise is zebra-striped with squid ink and humble beans are treated like precious gems, Curtola trusts his diners to venture beyond obvious...
Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-Two Years
Once the family settled into their new normal, Holton resumed his photography. The tones of these prints are darker: shadows replace the bright colors, and family members are visibly...
What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High
Ojos del Salado rises more than twenty-two thousand feet above sea level, on Chile’s northeastern border. It is the world’s tallest volcano, towering over the world’s highest desert: an...
Raul Lopez Wants to Be American Fashion
In the fall of 2014, Lopez staged an official Fashion Week event at Webster Hall. He recalled thinking, I’m about to hit it, I’m about to make it now—until...
