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Earth’s Poet of Scale
If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the...
Carrie Brownstein on a Portrait of Cat Power by Richard Avedon
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Conor McPherson’s Reliable Treasure
Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The Weir” has been one of the most reliable treasures of the Irish Repertory Theatre. First directed by Ciarán O’Reilly in 2013, revived in...
What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in...
Package Tracking Takes a Dark Turn in “Paper Towels”
When an online order goes missing, employees are often blamed. But how should they be punished? Now premium users get to decide. Source link
“Hot Spot,” by Nora Lange
He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He’d paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy. Source link
The Simplistic Moral Lessons of “Superman”
The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine “Superman.” The most recent installments in the franchise—Zack Snyder’s...
Amy Bloom’s Favorite Family Novels
Amy Bloom’s latest novel, “I’ll Be Right Here,” tells the story of a single family across more than eight decades. The span of the book renders it, almost by...
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which the poster feels the need,...
A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an Australian brought up in...
