
Hitler in Antarctica
A historian of the Third Reich traces the processes by which history is not simply distorted but replaced by a fantastic parallel version.
The Hitler Conspiracies
by Richard J. Evans
January 14, 2021 issue
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Hitler in Antarctica
A historian of the Third Reich traces the processes by which history is not simply distorted but replaced by a fantastic parallel version.
The Hitler Conspiracies
by Richard J. Evans
January 14, 2021 issue
Becoming the Nightmare
Wozzeck
an opera by Alban Berg, in a production by William Kentridge, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, December 27, 2019–January 22, 2020
February 27, 2020 issue
Back on Catfish Row
‘Porgy and Bess’ at the Met
Porgy and Bess
an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, September 23, 2019–February 1, 2020
Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music
by Richard Crawford
November 21, 2019 issue
There’s No Place Like Home
Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
by Harry Martinson, adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert
Aniara
an opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl
Aniara
a film directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
August 15, 2019 issue
A Boundless Capacity for Talk
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
by Adina Hoffman
April 18, 2019 issue
Out of Renoir’s Shadow
Jacques Becker
a series of films at Film Forum, New York City, August 1–16, 2018
October 25, 2018 issue
Miracle in Bologna
Il Cinema Ritrovato
a film festival in Bologna, Italy, June 23–July 1, 2018
August 16, 2018 issue
Freudian Noir
David Bordwell’s ‘Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling’
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
by David Bordwell
May 24, 2018 issue
Polymorphous Eden
‘Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables’ at the Whitney Museum
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 2–June 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 issue
Dinner from Hell
The Exterminating Angel
an opera by Thomas Adès, with a libretto by Tom Cairns and Thomas Adès based on a screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza, directed by Tom Cairns
December 21, 2017 issue
Five Magnificent Years
‘Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life’ by Jonathan Gould
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
by Jonathan Gould
September 28, 2017 issue
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
La La Land
a film written and directed by Damien Chazelle
April 6, 2017 issue
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