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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
If you close your eyes and imagine an up-from-the-bootstraps embodiment of boomer triumphalism—the ambitious young technocrat of a systems novel by Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon, sprinting toward his fully vested stake in the American Century—you might see a man like Grady Means, whose daughter, Casey Means, is now President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General.
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4 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
In early April, Head Start child-care centers began receiving an e-mail from the address [email protected].
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter
Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China. 1 May 2025Certain actors hold our attention simply by the way they move through space. Zhao Tao never speaks in Caught by the Tides (2024), the latest film in her longrunning collaboration with her husband, the director Jia Zhangke.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
On June 26, 2020, three months after the coronavirus pandemic had seized the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents about sixty-seven thousand pediatric physicians, issued guidance on reopening schools. “The AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school,” the statement read.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter
Leonardo Van Dijl’s debut feature begins where Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) left off: on a tennis court, where a player mimes shots with an imaginary ball. This young woman is Julie, a rising star on the Belgian tennis circuit. Moments after we meet her, she’ll learn that her coach, Jeremy, has been suspended. The reasons for the suspension are opaque but, given that he’s been implicated in the suicide of his previous protégée, it’s natural that the club wants to speak to all its students.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Jessica Winter |Nicole Flattery |Ben Nicholson |Samuel Thomas Davies
One of a spate of early noughties Jane Austen adaptations, Pride & Prejudice impressed our critic with fine casting and evocative cinematography and production design. Updated: 24 April 2025Keira Knightley can sometimes cut a chilly, rigid figure on screen, but she’s never exuded more warmth and confidence than as Lizzy Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. She perfectly embodies what Jane Austen characterised as Lizzy’s “lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous”.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he did not like.” He suspected a rare genetic condition; Hess underwent an amniocentesis and then an MRI. She sought out a second opinion—which augured catastrophe and, it turned out, was completely wrong—and a third, steadying one.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
When Ryan O’Neal was making the promotional rounds for “Paper Moon,” in 1973, the actor informed the press that he did not want his nine-year-old daughter and co-star, Tatum, to make any more movies until she reached adulthood. “I’ve seen what has happened to child stars,” he said.
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
Why has Disney’s new live-action remake of “Snow White” flopped at the box office? Is it because the dull trailer looked A.I.-generated, or because the film’s stars, Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, appear to have sourced their costumes and makeup from Party City? Is it because the film personifies Hollywood’s status as a bottle-and-can redemption center for moldering I.P.? Is it for being a movie nobody asked for, about a princess who falls asleep?
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Jessica Winter
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to the hundreds of workers who had already either lost their jobs or accepted buyout offers. Three areas of the D.O.E. in particular were disproportionately affected by the cuts: student aid, civil-rights complaints, and education research.
