How Please Stopped Being Polite
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Nora Ephron’s Revenge
In the 40 years since Heartburn was published, there have been two distinct ways to read it. Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel is narrated by a food writer, Rachel Samstat, who...
Ted Lasso Is No Longer Trying to Feel Good
Ted Lasso likes to say that winning isn’t everything. The folksy American coach of the struggling British soccer club AFC Richmond, Ted (played by Jason Sudeikis) is expected to care...
The Strange Intimacy of New York City
Photographs by Richard SandlerRichard Sandler’s photographs of New York, taken from the late 1970s to the early ’90s, seem straightforward at first: portraits of everyday city life composed with deceptive...