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Genevieve O’Reilly plays Mon Mothma in Lucasfilm’s “Andor” on Disney+
Phillip Maciak
TV’s Antidote to the Year of Men in Crisis
In a year defined by the newly lurid visibility of men’s problems, I was most moved by two series—Dying for Sex and Andor—that offered remarkable performances by women.
Collage of four film stills: Blue Moon, Deliver Me From Nowhere, One Battle After Another, and Eddington.
Adam Nayman
The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
With remote locations and characters in exile, some of 2025’s biggest movies gave up on depicting social relations.
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In Pluribus, Groupthink Spells the End of Art
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An illustration of Gertrude Stein drawn from a Carl Van Vechten photograph
Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
Evan Kindley
An illustration of Gertrude Stein drawn from a Carl Van Vechten photograph
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Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
Piper French
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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
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An illustration of Pinochet as a silhouette with a photo of his citizens in the background
How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
Piper French
An illustration of Pinochet as a silhouette with a photo of his citizens in the background
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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
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The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
Cass R. Sunstein
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A map by Giovanni Schiaparelli of Mars  introduced the idea of canals crossing the planet’s surface.
The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
Cass R. Sunstein
A map by Giovanni Schiaparelli of Mars  introduced the idea of canals crossing the planet’s surface.
MagazineCass R. Sunstein
The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
A photograph of the artist Ruth Asawa with one of her wire sculptures in 1961
MagazineJessie Kindig
Ruth Asawa Connected Everything
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet
MagazineAdam Nayman
Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet
The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.
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