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The Right Side of Now
The notion of having to one day repent for one’s trespasses gives even the godless a fright, we assume. A…
The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content
In 1974, Martin Scorsese was a year removed from his breakthrough film—the semi-autobiographical “Mean Streets,” about a young man in…
The Trials and Tribulations of the Boymom
Until a few months ago, the parenting influencer Avery Woods, who has more than two million followers on TikTok, was…
The History of Chatsworth House as a Family Home
Architecture buffs might visit Chatsworth House for the important role it played in the development of the English Baroque; garden…
Ilana Glazer’s “Babes” Joins a Lineage of Pregnancy Comedies
Some Hollywood clichés are so well understood that they become shorthand for improbable events in the real world. Among pregnant…
“The Idea of You” and the Notion of the Hot Mom
The sandwiches clinch it. In Michael Showalter’s effervescent new movie, “The Idea of You,” Hayes Campbell, a twenty-four-year-old global pop…
Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Our Moment of Bad Reading
For the past week, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, separated in age by less than a year and foiled by reputation,…
Stormy Daniels’s American Dream | The New Yorker
Donald Trump seemed to be in an impish mood, on Thursday morning, as he walked into his criminal trial in…
Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-Comfort Movie | The New Yorker
My Ghibli childhood, according to my mother, began when I was three. One day, seeing me and my sister bored…
Why Normal Music Reviews No Longer Make Sense for Taylor Swift
Ask music critics what they think of Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” and those who aren’t…