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What Does Freud Still Have to Teach Us?
There are more than thirty full-length biographies of Sigmund Freud in circulation today. Why keep writing them? Generally, there are two justifications for a new biography: an obscure archive...
Ambitious, Modern Lebanese Cooking at Sawa
Most meals at Sawa begin with the bread, a sizable round of which comes with any of the restaurant’s selection of Middle Eastern dips: a bright swirl of labneh,...
Jonathan Groff Rolls Merrily Back
For more than forty years, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along” was a problem in search of a solution. Loosely based on a Kaufman and...
The Inescapable Thingness
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The Missionary in the Kitchen
At nineteen, I was practically Christian. No sex, no drugs, a lot of desperate hopes that didn’t seem so different from prayers: to be normal, to be smart—above all,...
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
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The Sexy Mind Games of “Hit Man”
In Richard Linklater’s romantic crime comedy, an undercover operative transforms his love life by means of professional deceptions. Source link
John Cuneo’s “A Man of Conviction”
It’s not the first time that news of a verdict against Donald J. Trump has been eagerly awaited by cartoonists, commentators, and the general public. For the cover of...
“Matrescence,” and the Transformations of Motherhood
Several months after the writer Lucy Jones gave birth to her third child, she purchased a compound microscope, swabbed her underarm, and set out to grow her own bacteria....
The New Generation of Online Culture Curators
The current Internet landscape sometimes feels like the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”: directionless, inexplicable, bound to change in confusing ways. Our social-media feeds don’t offer much except...
The Maillard Over-Reaction
Things that scare me in the kitchen: mandolines, lighting a gas hob with a matchstick, onions, chicken-washing discourse, people who want to help, cooking with or without a timer,...