Natalie (Lili Reinhart) is an ambitious college senior with her future mapped out. But after a one-night stand leads to vomiting, she decides to take a pregnancy test. “Look Both Ways,” a deluded Netflix drama, stages this moment as a crossroads. It envisions divergent futures for our heroine: one in
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‘Le Temps Perdu’ Review: Proust Club
At the very least, María Álvarez’s “Le Temps Perdu” might give hope to anyone who has always meant to finish — or start — Proust. Shot almost entirely in a Buenos Aires cafe, the cozy black-and-white documentary sits in with a group of seniors who gather to savor “In Search
Review: ‘All the Living and the Dead,’ by Hayley Campbell
ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work, by Hayley Campbell Conceptually, death is mere tragedy. But in reality, it also comes with a particular pain many people are unequipped for: the scourge of logistics and
Book Review: “All of This” by Rebecca Woolf and “This Story Will Change” by Elizabeth Crane
As such, we see the couple doing boring, happy things. They acquire furniture, get a dog and agree that the husband will take care of home repairs and pest control while the wife will do the dishes and the laundry. “Do you even want to get into a discussion of
Review: ‘Calling for a Blanket Dance,’ by Oscar Hokeah; ‘Stories From the Tenants Downstairs,’ by Sidik Fofana; and ‘Sirens & Muses,’ by Antonia Angress
When Ever is only 6 months old, a group of police officers beat his father for refusing to pay a bribe, leaving him with permanent kidney damage. This is how Oscar Hokeah’s devastating debut, CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE (258 pp., Algonquin, $27), begins. The book showcases five decades of
Deshaun Watson Apologizes as Suspension Is Under Review
After a 19-month absence from football, Deshaun Watson started an N.F.L. preseason game on Friday night. Before the game began, the Cleveland Browns quarterback did something else that had been nearly as long coming: He apologized for the first time since more than two dozen women said he sexually assaulted
‘A Little Night Music’ Review: A Rueful Take at Barrington Stage
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — I thought I’d seen everything you could do with “A Little Night Music,” the nearly unimprovable 1973 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. But Barrington Stage Company’s bittersweet revival, which opened here on Wednesday, ends the first act with an especially deft touch. As the principals
Review: ‘Complicit,’ by Winnie M Li
Welcome to Group Text, a monthly column for readers and book clubs about the novels, memoirs and short-story collections that make you want to talk, ask questions and dwell in another world for a little bit longer. ________ When I first read about Harvey Weinstein’s assaults on young actors in
Review: “Memoirs,” by Robert Lowell
Though Lowell could be both humorous and lighthearted in life, he rarely showed it in his work. But here, his portraits — of bibulous old salts, friends of his father from Navy days, a Christian Science society lady, his overbearing mother’s tart rejoinders — are deft and sprightly, adjectives we
Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart
Among the best known facts about Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is that the composer died before finishing it. Over the centuries, completions have accrued. The music for Kyle Abraham’s dance “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth” isn’t one of them. You do hear snatches of Mozart’s Requiem