Eat and Be Eaten
February 8, 2024
“The Taste of Things” restores food to the level of art.
Robert Rubsam
Robert Rubsam is a writer and critic whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and Gawker.
Paul Schrader’s American Carnage
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How the director became our chief chronicler of U.S. violence, at home and abroad.
The Changeling
July 13, 2023
The musician PJ Harvey has made a career of reinvention.
Donkey Work
January 18, 2023
What does the pained animal signify?
Patterns of Meaning
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Inside Gerald Murnane’s infinitely expanding mind.
After Eden
October 7, 2021
Traversing the scarred landscapes of Jean Giono’s Provence.
Weekending in an Emergency
April 7, 2020
Well-off New Yorkers flee coronavirus to a fantasy version of the Hudson Valley.