Can We Escape from Time?
The New York Review of Books · 15 minAlthough it feels like it’s been around forever, time travel isn’t an ancient archetypal story but a newborn myth.
Although it feels like it’s been around forever, time travel isn’t an ancient archetypal story but a newborn myth.
Learning how we respond to rhythm can lead to therapeutic applications.
The beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.
How the box set that captures Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s final tour together challenges the conventional wisdom about both of them.
This movie had the opportunity to show a more dynamic side of slavery narratives, but it ends up reaffirming the very horror it is trying to critique.
Sign up for our Watching Newsletter to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox. The sheer volume of films on Netflix — and the site’s less than ideal interface — can make finding a genuinely great movie there a difficult task.
As the pandemic and expansion of streaming changes how and when we see a movie, one unassuming social media site is positioned as a haven for the film-crit community One of the most popular reviews ever written on Letterboxd, a social media site for cinephiles, was posted about David Fincher’s Fig
Bruce Springsteen is standing on a gravel driveway outside his house, squinting up at the sky.
A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion.
In her new book “Men to Avoid in Art and Life,” Nicole Tersigni harnesses her skill with a Twitter meme to illuminate the experience of women harassed by concern trolls, “sexperts” and more. This story begins, as so many do these days, on Twitter.
To make a point about the evils of white supremacy, the film subjects its Black characters to unceasing brutality. This story contains spoilers for the film Antebellum.
Is it 2 P.M. already? Ugh. I’ve done nothing today. I woke up, stretched, saw that I had six voice mails, ignored them, showered, ate three waffles, and then felt annoyed that I’m thirty-five and still don’t speak French. Wait, hang on. I didn’t shower. That was yesterday.
We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace.
In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
In the summer of 1980, there were only two big-studio comedies that anyone was buzzing about. Neither one of them was Airplane!
“Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012.
At the beginning of April I wrote a piece for the Guardian. If you haven’t read it, the headline pretty much sums it up: “Terminal cancer means I won’t see the other side of lockdown”.
Recently, like a woolly mammoth emerging from a melting glacier, “The Far Side,” the single-panel comic that débuted in 1980 and helped make the Reagan era more bearable, reappeared from the mists of time.
It depends who’s selling. As some artists release records that feel like footnotes to bigger businesses, others double down on their value.
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops.
He has a reputation as Hollywood’s ultimate control freak, a director obsessed with attaining perfection no matter how many takes it needs or whose feelings he hurts.
It has become clear, in these last decades of decadence, decline, towering institutional violence, and rampant bad taste, that American life is stuck somewhere inside the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe.
Spool forward a couple of centuries. A small group of social historians drawn from the survivors of climate catastrophe are picking through the documentary records of what we are currently pleased to call our civilisation, and they come across a couple of old movies.
On a chilly November morning last year, the sunlight a ribbon of gold on the rolling Virginia hills, Ethan Hawke, who would turn forty-nine the next day, ambled into a replica of Harpers Ferry in 1859.