Saturday, June 27, 2026

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The Coastal Mysteries of “Romería” and “Rose of Nevada”

In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore thing. Source link

Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I.

Anadol enjoyed an early triumph in 2018, when he lit up the silver sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, with projections developed using terabytes of recordings, program notes, and archival documents from the L.A....

The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most

“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li notes at the opening of her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” mimicking the words used by a police officer to inform her of the death by suicide...

A Sprawling Monument to How Things Get Made

Mark Power’s “Fashion” lavishes formal attention on industrial machinery and, by extension, on the human effort behind it. Source link

Mind-Blowing Life Hacks to Rectify Reflecting-Pool Problems!

Kiss unwanted algae goodbye! Source link

Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers

Since the fifteenth century, most adaptations of Homer have taken the form of translation, which has never been easy. Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables....

A Diehard Drinker Accidentally Quits

The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened. Source link

“Toy Story 5” Won’t Leave Kids to Their Own Devices

Ingeniously, Stanton and Harris weaponize a foundational conceit of the “Toy Story” universe—that inanimate objects can have freedom of will, thought, and movement—in order to feed our anxieties about the insidious autonomy of tech and A.I. For parents...

“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy

A decade ago, back when Twitter was still Twitter, and writerly types gathered there to amuse one another, a Los Angeles-based screenwriter named Katie Dippold posted one of the all-time great tweets. It was “tbt,” or throwback Thursday,...

A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike

The novel’s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university (the purview of the academics) and the city’s wild, unstoppable greenery (the purview of the gardeners, a...
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