A.O. Scott

3 weeks ago | entertainment-mag.com | A.O. Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves? A collage of photos and videos including the actors Robert Redford and Leonard DiCaprio as Gatsby, scenes from “Seinfeld” and “Family Guy,” and an image of the first edition of the book. And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling “Trimalchio in West Egg.” Would we still be talking about it if he had?

1 month ago | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott March 20, 2025 Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite — than as a technical description.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | A.O. Scott

En su tercer día en el cargo, en enero, el presidente Donald Trump ordenó liberar documentos de los Archivos Nacionales relacionados con los asesinatos de John F. Kennedy, su hermano Robert y el reverendo Martin Luther King. Como Trump declaró en campaña: "Han pasado 60 años, es hora de que el pueblo estadounidense conozca la VERDAD". La verdad es que nada en los archivos va a disipar la niebla de hipótesis, rumores y especulaciones que se arremolina en torno a estos asesinatos.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | A.O. Scott

Kennedy’s killing was almost immediately folded into a narrative structure that had already surfaced in popular culture as well as politics, a mode of storytelling that treated public events as the expressions of secret plots. Richard Condon’s Cold War thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” (published in 1959 and adapted by Hollywood in 1962) and Thomas Pynchon’s shaggy-dog experimental whodunit “V.” are among the best-known pre-assassination examples of this paranoid style in American fiction.

1 month ago | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

Image Credit...Mike Belleme for The New York Times By A.O. Scott Dear readers,I’m not going to get into the various reasons you might have for wanting to go somewhere else right now — somewhere, let’s say, on the other side of an international border. The fact is that Americans have always been eager tourists and willing expatriates, game to study the histories and decode the customs of neighboring and far-flung places.