Disney is lying to your kids

At the 11th Academy Awards in 1939, Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with an honorary Oscar — a statuette accompanied by seven miniatures. It was, of course, a nod to his animation Snow White, which the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein …

What did #MeToo accomplish?

On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the 67-year-old touted his record managing the pandemic while flanked by his daughters, …

Meet Brazil’s art cannibals

One could chew over the Western canon heavies, the Brazilian cultural critic Oswald de Andrade believed, and still spew out something singularly Brazilian — a sensible enough proposition, you might think at first blush. After all, creativity is a parasitic …

The paradox of Millennial perfection

Yoga mats, brushed-steel kettles, Scandinavian armchairs, avocado slices, marble-top pastry tables — this peculiar subclass of objects, and the life that is organised around them, is the subject of Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection (Fitzcarraldo). That life involves: working from home …