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With Trump’s Tariff Reprieve, Mexico and Canada, Still Wary, Breathe Easier
President Trump suspended tariffs for both countries after Mexico’s leader presented her security successes, and after U.S. markets fell and business leaders urged the White House to change course.
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Anne Imhof’s ‘Doom’ at the Armory Has Everything, and Nothing
Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.
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A Fashion Photographer Conjures the Ghosts of Georgia’s Past
At Gagosian, the precociously successful Tyler Mitchell evokes images of slavery against the backdrop of his native landscape.
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More Than Rage: Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
The absurdist drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” begins with one of the most indelible images to grace the silver screen in recent memory: a young woman, Shula (Susan Chardy, in a star-making debut performance), donning Missy Elliott’s iconic bejeweled mask and oversized inflatable black suit from her music video for “The Rain,” driving alone…
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Women Writers Week 2025: Table of Contents
Links to all of the content run during Women Writers Week 2025. If it’s not a live link, it’s still forthcoming. FILM REVIEWS “Bloat” by Marya E. Gates “Eephus” by Peyton Robinson “The Empire” by Justine Smith “In the Lost Lands” by Monica Castillo “Mickey 17” by Christy Lemire “Night of the Zoopocalypse” by Nell…
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Women Develop New Models of Heroism in Festival Docs
Everyone loves a hero. We’re awash with heroic stories in film and TV, decades into the comic-book-turned-movie blockbuster. In fact, we’ve had so many of these stories that there’s a bona fide backlash now, with countless films whose taglines could be “not all heroes wear capes.”’ Now, whether they’re wearing spandex or not, most motion…
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People Have Theories: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” at 50
There’s something about “Picnic at Hanging Rock” that makes one obsessive. Directed by Peter Weir and based on the novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, the film takes place in 1900 and charts the aftermath of the disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher during a Valentine’s Day picnic beneath Hanging Rock, a…
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Having a Lunatic’s Dream: Emily Bett Rickards on “Queen of the Ring”
Emily Bett Rickards plays the title role in “Queen of the Ring,” based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the pioneering wrestler who began her “not fixed, scripted” fights when women were still banned from wrestling in every state. She became a world champion and the first woman athlete to earn $1 million. How…
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SpaceX’s Starship Tumbles in Space During Its 8th Test Flight
Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.