Browsing: Culture Desk

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey adaptation faces “woke-ifying” accusations. But translation has always been interpretation — and Homer was never simple.

Writing a thousand words a day won’t fix being trapped in a submarine for 18 months. But it might be the only advice that still works down there.

In 1990, Wilson Phillips released “Hold On” — a song of radical sincerity from the daughters of rock legends that disarmed teenage cynics everywhere.

Ross McElwee’s documentary Remake confronts the death of his son Adrian, a longtime subject of his films, and the ethics of that archive.

Vasily Grossman covered WWII for Soviet propaganda and produced journalism that ended up as Nuremberg evidence. His full work was suppressed until after his death.

David Wain discusses his first film in eight years, the State’s legacy, and original comedy’s shrinking space in Hollywood.

The New Yorker asked luminaries to name their favorite American. The answers — scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats, one cartoon — reveal more than any ranked list could.

Natural law once fueled progressive constitutional arguments. Conservatives now hold that tradition almost entirely — and the left hasn’t found a counter-framework.

A New Yorker’s summer protest against trendy dessert lines involves making sheep sounds at tourists and transplants. The New Yorker covered it.

Will Mackin’s “Pig Lab” in The New Yorker opens with soldier Ted Waters losing his leg to a bomb disguised as a guardrail outside Marjah. A close read.