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There’s always a danger in making a feature-length movie to expand upon a successful TV series: The narrative arc of the series can easily [...]
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025 after its debut in 2024, Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda yokes its readers to [...]
The other day I was thinking to myself, the way a totally normal, not guilty, super innocent person does, about what the objects that [...]
Whenever I make that fateful trip to my local Rome hospital to have my ruined eyes examined, my mostly steady Italian collapses like a [...]
Then&Now
Essays by Christopher Winner
Termination
This is a very short story about my two children. One is Jason, by now close to 45, and Nedra, who, last I was [...]
A dollar gets a dime
Toward the end of his life, long after battles won and lost, brute temper and trivial anger exhausted, my father spoke often of the [...]
Deep blue sea
Smaller than small, I once set out on a a great adventure at the Washington aquarium, another way of saying I became lost. I [...]
Conclave of three doors
The death of Pope Francis was coming for some time. Now, cardinals will face some hard choices, most of which reside behind three doors. [...]
In Case You Missed It
Keeping Pesach
Passover is one of my favourite Jewish holidays. Partly because it's an easy one to explain to a Christian. Explaining [...]
Playground stories
Recently, I gave my students an assignment to interview someone in their major field. I wanted to introduce a skill [...]
Carnival time
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and penitence in preparation for the feast of [...]
Bora of the fest
A month ago, when Lent was drawing closer, it was Carnival season. What is Carnival season like in Friuli Venezia [...]
Are the Academy Awards dying?
The 98th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone, and the only issue in dispute is whether the movie industry’s [...]
Photo essay: La Fête du Potiron
During the color starved months of a Normandy winter, I find myself looking back at photographs from La Fête [...]
Vertical dramas: the new frontier
Being a tour guide at Paramount was incredible — in part because I got paid to drive golf carts, but [...]
Underdogs dancing so far
The madness began in familiar fashion to 2025 — with First Four winners Miami (which could be making its own [...]