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I love Trader Joe’s. I didn’t even know I loved Trader Joe’s until I moved to England. I learned what every parent of a toddler knows well—taking the thing away will only make them want it more. And I want…
To the Palestinians, March 30 is known as Land Day or Yom al-Ard. This day is observed as a symbol of resilience and love for their homeland, while commemorating Palestinian history and the hardships endured by its people. Fifty years…
In a time when the news cycle feels like it is dominated by political instability and global conflict, it is fascinating how easily the internet can fixate on a clip of Timothée Chalamet making an offhand comment about opera and…
I originally wrote this in August for another publication. They did not want it, so six months later, it is now on The Shed. When On Photography was published in 1977, Susan Sontag captured an urgent theme of photography. Throughout…
We live in a time in which greatness and striving for it are malignantly cast aside by the zeitgeist. No example is more poignant of this than Timothee Chalamet and his role as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Released on…
I’m going to be real, I thought ‘6-7’ was funny. I don’t know why I thought ‘6-7’ was funny. Before writing this, I had no idea what it meant or why, in particular, it was funny. People had tried to…
In contemporary film, there are essentially two broad categories that can be distinguished. The first can be referred to as pop-film: cinema produced primarily to entertain. This includes the Marvel franchise, the modern rom-com, and anything starring Kevin Hart. These…
Yorgos Lanthimos has quietly become one of my favorite working directors today. His unmistakable style runs through every frame of his films, something that, depending on who you ask, can be either his greatest virtue or his biggest fault. On…
I watched The Birdcage on the way to LAX due to the countless recommendations I had received from a coworker and found it far less funny than she had promised. Colin and Rylan wouldn’t land for another two hours, with…
The “male loneliness epidemic” posits that men, especially young ones, are intrinsically alone. The working theory is that women are to blame. I’ve been lonely before, sure, but I’ve never found a convincing way to pin that feeling on half…
