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Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar
On a recent visit, Clemente Bar’s cozy space seemed to be populated mostly by well-employed millennial gastronomes, plus a smattering of Eleven Madison Park regulars who were discernible by...
Bearing Witness to American Exploits
The book begins with photographs from van Agtmael’s early years as a war photographer, covering the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, which show the routine violence of two worlds...
Documentaries of Dissent
“No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see. Source link
“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary...
A Woman Wonders If She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot”
In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. Source link
The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank
In “A Wonderful World,” a jukebox bio-musical about Louis Armstrong, the book writer Aurin Squire crams sixty years into the plot, which, predictably, flattens most interactions into an outline....
“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour. Dolours and Marian Price (Lola Petticrew and...
“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
It may be bright and getting brighter on Broadway these days, but Off Broadway the shadows are lengthening. Desperation-level real-estate pressures are pushing established theatre companies out of spaces...
The Gorgeous Mumbai Rhapsody of “All We Imagine as Light”
It’s tedious to talk about the weather, but “All We Imagine as Light” compels me to at least attempt an exception. From the moment the movie begins, on a...
Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and a professor at Harvard Law School. She won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello,”...
