Opinion & Ideas: New Yorker

The grainy haze that settles over the soldiers in David Levinthal’s photographs isn’t the fog of war, it’s the impressionistic murk that results from setting his camera lens for an e

Gimlette has written a travelogue of a vanished place, the “great wheeled city” of more than two million American soldiers that rolled up from Marseilles in 1944 to meet the German Army.

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ANAMORPH

KIROV BALLET AND ORCHESTRA

Every so often, a grand thesis captures the world’s imagination, at least until it is swept away by events or by a newer, more plausible thesis.

In an interview with the London Observer several months ago, Geoff Barrow, the leader of the British trio Portishead, complained, “They turned our songs into a fondue set.” “They&#82