Son of the Thin Man
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/09/07/son-thin-man-andrew-katzenstein/
Published: September 7, 2024 14:33
In our September 19 issue, Andrew Katzenstein writes about one of Hollywoodâs most distinctive contributions to the world: âThe hope is that in figuring out what we mean by âscrewball comedy,â we might be better able to understand just what it is aboutâŚ
Mode for Joe
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/09/06/mode-for-joe-henderson/
Published: September 6, 2024 11:00
Was the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson thinking of the film Black Narcissus (1947) when he wrote a song of that title? Itâs an unlikely connection. The movie, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and based on a novel by Rumer Godden, followsâŚ
Desert Visions
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/09/04/desert-visions-flamingos/
Published: September 4, 2024 14:13
I was born or given to the light, as the largely Hispanic townspeople would say, in the impoverished desert municipality of Barstow, California. My mother, Ruth, was young and inexperienced; her marriage was already flaking away. I was her practice child,âŚ
Gregor Samsa in Mexico
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/08/31/gregor-samsa-in-mexico/
Published: August 31, 2024 14:30
In our September 19, 2024, issue, Claudio Lomnitz reviews Marcela Turatiâs San Fernando, Last Stop, âarguably the most thorough and absorbing piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexicoâs brutal political economy.â In the spring of 2011âŚ