Ackee and Cod had met before. The fruit of this tree is strange even for those of us who grew up eating it. Ackee’s outer ...

Gift-giving is a way of saying “I see you.” I see what you need and I see what I have to share. My well-being is tied to ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray ...

AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used ...

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I THINK OFTEN OF an image by the artist David Wojnarowicz that I saw in a gallery years ago: a small, black-and-white photo of a swamp, the lights and darks reversed like a film negative. In the upper ...

What the film industry can do to aim for a greener future.

YOU FEEL LIKE A star yourself strolling in beneath that iconic marquee, settling into an overstuffed velvet seat. But let’s face it: what sets the cinema apart from streaming a film on your laptop is ...

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LET US BEGIN WITH the eye of a bird. Hitchcock’s The Birds contains a famous shot where we shift from the human perspective to that of the murderous fowls. On the ground, the birds attack a gas ...

How art we hate blooms into art we love.

OBAACHAN, MY MOTHER’S mother, came of age in Nagoya, Japan, in the 1940s. Like me, Obaachan preferred the peace of her interior world to the chaos of everyday life. We could seldom get her to share ...