D. A. Miller

Nov 1, 2024 | nybooks.com | D. A. Miller |Anna Shechtman

To the educated middle-class viewer of Sean Baker’s Anora, the term “sex worker” will seem the proper and indeed the only usable one for the titular protagonist’s occupation. Any other would be dated or worse. Yet the term is unknown to the streetwise characters in the film, set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, not that long ago. In this world, Anora (Mikey Madison) is variously called a whore, prostitute, shlyukha, hooker, escort, ho, and so on.

Dec 6, 2023 | nybooks.com | D. A. Miller |Anna Shechtman

Theodor Adorno was right to say that “the need to protect sexuality has something crazy about it.” A recent case in point is Dennis Baxley, sponsor of Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill, now passed into law, which currently bans instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. “Am I crazy or what?” he asked with more candor than he knew.

Jun 25, 2023 | la-otra-verdad.com | D. A. Miller

Quizás no lo parezca por su aspecto, tan futurista que no desentonaría entre el atrezo de una peli del universo Marvel, pero el avión espía SR-71 “Blackbird” es una reliquia de la Guerra Fría. Cuando voló por primera vez, en 1964, el Despacho Oval lo ocupaba Lyndon B. Johnson, hacía solo unos años de la invasión de Bahía de Cochinos y las relaciones entre Washington y el Kremlin estaban más tirantes que la piel de los tambores que, de tanto en tanto, sonaban a guerra inminente.