Tag: World

The Form-Blurring Fury of “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”

[ad_1] One of the first things you see in “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,” a furious, brilliantly shape-shifting new movie from the forty-six-year-old Romanian writer and director Radu Jude, is a closeup of a woman’s nightstand. It’s cluttered with the remnants of a long night’s lonely libations—an empty beer… Continue reading The Form-Blurring Fury of “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”

‘Winning Time’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: ‘The New World’

[ad_1] The modern NBA has been defined by player empowerment, particularly by the game’s biggest stars. If LeBron James wants to take his talents from Cleveland to South Beach and engineer a superteam with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, he can do it. If he wants to move back to Cleveland and get an overbearing… Continue reading ‘Winning Time’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: ‘The New World’

Millions Expected to Watch World Lying Championship

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)—Millions are expected to watch two legendary prevaricators face off for the world lying championship this Wednesday night. The event is being characterized in some quarters as a generational struggle, as a fifty-four-year-old upstart seeks to wrest the crown of mendacity from an aging but still dangerous seventy-seven-year-old. Those who… Continue reading Millions Expected to Watch World Lying Championship

This World Cup Left Its Mark on Australia

[ad_1] Only four countries have won a Women’s World Cup; Australia, for now, will not be one of them. In soccer, the semifinal can be the cruellest match. On Wednesday night, in Sydney, the Matildas, as the Australian women’s team are known, played in their first World Cup semifinal, against England, and fell, at home,… Continue reading This World Cup Left Its Mark on Australia

The Injury That Has Upended the Women’s World Cup

[ad_1] It is no surprise that England is in the final of the Women’s World Cup. They are the world’s fourth-ranked team, the reigning European champions, and were among the semifinalists at the World Cup four years ago. The final was the expectation, not the goal. When England dominated Germany in the Euro finals last… Continue reading The Injury That Has Upended the Women’s World Cup

Jon Batiste Has Lil Wayne on His New Album World Music Radio

[ad_1] Lil Wayne revealed earlier this year that he couldn’t pick his hitmaking album Tha Carter III out of a lineup. “I believe that [God] blessed me with this amazing mind, but would not give [me] an amazing memory to remember this amazing shit,” he told Rolling Stone. One thing Wayne does remember, though: how… Continue reading Jon Batiste Has Lil Wayne on His New Album World Music Radio

How the Writer and Critic Jacqueline Rose Puts the World on the Couch

[ad_1] We were too late. For weeks, the Davidia—the ghost trees—had been shedding their loose white blooms, like translucent handkerchiefs. Jacqueline Rose pocketed them on her walks around her London neighborhood of West Hampstead—the kind of long, looping tour she had begun taking daily during the pandemic. She brought me on one such walk, late… Continue reading How the Writer and Critic Jacqueline Rose Puts the World on the Couch