New York City
Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.
At TIFF, Barbara Kopple follows exploited delivery workers, William Greaves revives the Harlem Renaissance, and Iranian filmmakers find private lives shadowed by surveillance, war, and repression, yet also beautified in some cases.
In her wry, incisive documentary, filmmaker Penny Lane turns an owl’s rise and fall into an unusually moving inquiry into animal sentience, urban spectacle, and the cost of liberation.
Jay McInerney’s characters may live on exotic mixed drinks and fine wines, but they still suffer moral dilemmas and have consciences they cannot silence.
The Safdie brothers are willing to look at hard truths, creating a movie that retains the immediacy and the tragedy of addiction.
Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
In his latest novel, Michael Cunningham writes about Manhattan’s art world with canny insight and sympathy. But he goes beyond that, anchoring his story not only in beauty, as it is constantly reconceived and imagined, but in considerations of love, sex, morality, and mortality. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages,…
Recent Comments