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An American in Afghanistan: The Millions Interviews James Longley
James Longley makes films and photographs. Such is the extent of the bio on his website. When you watch Longley’s films or take in his photographs, or when you hear him speak about his work, you begin...
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung
The fact is I’ve been a grumpy reader this year: as someone who’s been at this books thing “professionally” for a while, and who is also an avid film and TV consumer, I confess I really, really need...
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This post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. Pauline Kael was the most renowned film critic of...
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Bon Courage: ‘The Good Wife’ Qua Middlebrow Novel
1. For this year’s Year in Reading, I wrote about my 2019 reading grump—a restless disinterest in many of the novels that literary and social media were excited about. As readers we all go through...
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By Myself but Keeping Company with Lauren Bacall
1. You could say that pandemic quarantine has compressed our lives from three dimensions into two: we hear voices but don’t see faces; we see faces, but without bodies; we see bodies, but in...
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Parenting During a Pandemic
In July, a friend sent me a link to a BBC article about the division of domestic labor in Indian households: “In millions of middle class homes, the housework is delegated to the hired domestic...
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung
The books that stuck with me this year happen to fall under a theme: romance. But not the escapist kind: no froofy happy-ever-afters. I found myself drawn to earnest stories of love and longing that...
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Pandemic Life by the Numbers: The Golden Five
This post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. Five people Our social worlds have contracted — my...
View ArticleStop Filming Us: Interrogating and Inverting the Western Gaze
Stop Filming Us, a new documentary film by Joris Postema, opens at Film Forum in New York City on May 14, 2021, in theater and in virtual cinema. For more information click here. The issue of cultural...
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung
What did I read this year? Not a lot that I loved, to be honest. And kind of a mishmash. It was a strange year… I started 2021 distressed like everyone on the planet, but also coping with...
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