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In “Fiume o Morte!,” the director Igor Bezinović combines nonfiction elements with fictionalizations of historical events—and reveals the behind-the-scenes creation of these reënactments, turning the work into a documentary about its own making. “Fiume o Morte!” Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue.
In “Fiume o Morte!,” the director Igor Bezinović combines nonfiction elements with fictionalizations of historical events—and reveals the behind-the-scenes creation of these reënactments, turning the work into a documentary about its own making. “Fiume o Morte!” Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue Igor Bezinović’s film thrusts century-old archival footage into the present, restaging the brazen reign of an autocrat whose tactics feel startlingly resonant today.
It only took 74 days for Donald Trump to smash the global economic order. Why did he decide to blow up a century’s worth of globalization?
It only took 74 days for Donald Trump to smash the global economic order. Why did he decide to blow up a century’s worth of globalization?
Back when Chloë Sevigny was “a 19-year-old that has done nothing,” Jay McInerney profiled her for The New Yorker.
Back when Chloë Sevigny was “a 19-year-old that has done nothing,” Jay McInerney profiled her for The New Yorker. The piece had a huge impact on Naomi Fry. “Despite not having done much at that point besides be young, hang out downtown, and have an innate sense of style, Sevigny seemed to be the font from which absolute cool flowed,” Fry writes. Read her full consideration of McInerney on Sevigny.
Remember when Donald Trump told people that they’d get tired of winning once he was in office? The federal courts seem to say otherwise.
Remember when Donald Trump told people that they’d get tired of winning once he was in office? The federal courts seem to say otherwise.
Regardless of the prospects of Trump’s tariffs boosting U.S. manufacturing over the long term, in the short term they are likely to inflict pain on two major constituents of the G.O.P. coalition: working-class MAGA voters and Republicans in business.
Regardless of the prospects of Trump’s tariffs boosting U.S. manufacturing over the long term, in the short term they are likely to inflict pain on two major constituents of the G.O.P. coalition: working-class MAGA voters and Republicans in business.
The release of “Magazine Dreams,” starring Jonathan Majors, has facilitated one of the more disturbing redemption tours in the wake of #MeToo reportage, Doreen St. Félix writes.
The release of “Magazine Dreams,” starring Jonathan Majors, has facilitated one of the more disturbing redemption tours in the wake of #MeToo reportage, Doreen St. Félix writes.
As much as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert often clashed, there was a key thing they shared: neither was a movie person.
As much as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert often clashed, there was a key thing they shared: neither was a movie person.
Reading Catullus in a college Latin course, Daniel Mendelsohn came across an unfamiliar word: irrumator, which the poet used to describe a provincial governor for whom he had worked. “You may render that word as ‘bastard,’ ” his professor said, a little too loudly.
Reading Catullus in a college Latin course, Daniel Mendelsohn came across an unfamiliar word: irrumator, which the poet used to describe a provincial governor for whom he had worked. “You may render that word as ‘bastard,’ ” his professor said, a little too loudly. That evening, Mendelsohn looked up the word. The verb inrumō—the root of irrumator—means “to give suck, abuse obscenely.” “I grinned, thinking I had a pretty good idea of what Catullus was calling the governor,” Mendelsohn writes. “Just how you can call your boss a skullfucker and still maintain a reputation for refined erudition and literary sophistication was a question that stumped me,” he continues. “As it turned out, I wasn’t the only one.” On the one hand, Catullus was an impetuous, often swaggering young writer whose sometimes brash, sometimes tender personality vividly emerges from the hundred-odd poems that have come down to us. On the other, he was a refined littérateur celebrated for his delicacy and wit, wh...
On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for the French Presidency in 2027. Isaac Chotiner speaks with an expert about what the decision means for the future of French politics.
On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for the French Presidency in 2027. Isaac Chotiner speaks with an expert about what the decision means for the future of French politics.
In Katie Kitamura’s new novel, “Audition,” a middle-aged actress in New York City is struggling to interpret a scene in a play when a much younger man walks into the theatre and breaks open the plot of her life. Before writing the book, Kitamura had become interested in the role performance plays in our day-to-day lives.
In Katie Kitamura’s new novel, “Audition,” a middle-aged actress in New York City is struggling to interpret a scene in a play when a much younger man walks into the theatre and breaks open the plot of her life. Before writing the book, Kitamura had become interested in the role performance plays in our day-to-day lives. “There are all these parts that we play every single day, and they come with quite prescriptive scripts,” Kitamura said. “The thing that struck me when I was thinking about ‘Audition’ is how seamlessly we flip between parts almost without being aware of it.” She designed the book to be read in several ways. “I’ve come to see it almost as a bit of a Rorschach blot: which side of the book readers think is true, or right side up, versus which is upside down says something about their own desires. What do you want to be true? What do you prefer to be a fantasy? That was one of my endeavors in writing the book—so it’s not really an either-or but both. I...
Sarah Stillman reports on a sweeping and uniquely American legal doctrine: felony murder, which sends thousands of people to prison for life for murders they didn't commit.
Sarah Stillman reports on a sweeping and uniquely American legal doctrine: felony murder, which sends thousands of people to prison for life for murders they didn't commit.
In 1964, on their first world tour, the Beatles took pictures that have only recently been discovered. What do they show us?
In 1964, on their first world tour, the Beatles took pictures that have only recently been discovered. What do they show us?