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Ahead of Her Directorial Debut, Durga Chew-Bose Revisits the Film That Haunts Her Creative Visions

In her writing, Durga Chew-Bose revels in the minute. Standing on the precipice of her own filmmaking debut, she expounds on the humid melancholy of Olivier Assayas’s 2008 film Summer Hours.

By Durga Chew-Bose August 6, 2024
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Obsessions Music

Here’s What ‘Headphones,’ Bjork’s 1995 Ode to Yearning, Can Teach Us About Obsession

By Harmony Holiday
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Here’s What Our Sexless Era Could Learn From the Ultimate Seductress: Gina Gershon

By Liana Satenstein
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Writer Hilton Als Reveals the Sculpture That Helped Him Redefine Masculinity

In the writer’s home, one object—a freewheeling sculpture of a Mexican revolutionary by artist Jared Buckhiester—never ceases to please. In this figure’s joyful gruffness, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic finds a new model of masculinity.

By Hilton Als April 2, 2024
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Writer Nicolaia Rips Reveals the Mustachioed, Cigar-Smoking Crush She’s Sustained Over the Past Two Decades

You don’t choose your first love, it chooses you. The author and native New Yorker contracted an infatuation with Groucho Marx as a toddler—one she’s still recovering from at the age of 26.

By Nicolaia Rips March 12, 2024
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Was ‘Past Lives’ the Most Grown-Up Film of the Year? One Writer Investigates the Emotional Turmoil of the Oscar Contender

By J Wortham
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