There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.”
Letter from Spain: Cave Woman
Beatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal.
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Themen | 010/2024 (28.02.2024)
Profiles: The Chaos Agent
Representative Matt Gaetz arrived at the White House in the last days of 2020, amid a gathering national crisis. President Donald Trump had lost his bid for reëlection the previous month, and his allies were exploring strategies to keep him in office. Though only thirty-eight years old, Gaetz, the scion of a political family in Florida’s Panhandle, had become one of the Republican Party’s most prominent and divisive figures.
The Political Scene: Border Troubles
In early December, 2020, Alejandro Mayorkas was called to Wilmington, Delaware, for a meeting with Joe Biden. The President-elect was choosing his Cabinet, and Mayorkas, whom Biden knew personally, had the sort of résumé that made him an obvious contender for a top role in the new Administration. Then a partner at WilmerHale, an élite white-shoe law firm in Washington, D.C., he had been a U.S. Attorney under Bill Clinton and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama.
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Themen | 011/2024 (06.03.2024)
Profiles: The Last Campaign
Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, President Biden voices defiant confidence.
Letter from Mexico: The Forty-Three
After a group of Mexican students disappeared, their parents fought for justice.
Onward and Upward with the Arts: High Anxiety
The playwright Lucy Prebble is expert at getting inside worried people’s heads.
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Themen | 012/2024 (13.03.2024)
Profiles: You Tell Me
In a cramped, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students are working on a short story. As they talk, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, sits quietly at the head of a too-large table, one palm propped on it, his body turning almost imperceptibly from side to side. His head, adorned with tangled strands of dark gray hair, is framed by a huge television hanging behind him, its screen a black surface....
A Critic at Large: Gone with the Wind
In December 1863, Abraham Lincoln had sat in the presidential box on two consecutive evenings and watched "Henry IV" - "Pause till these rebels, now on their feet, come under the yoke of government" - and in November, ten days before delivering the Gettysburg Address, he had seen John Wilkes Booth....
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Themen | 014/2024 (27.03.2024)
A Reporter at Large: Time’s Up
The Conservatives have ruled Britain for almost fourteen years. What have they done to the country?
Annals of Design: Water World
A Dutch architect’s vision of cities that float.
Profiles: Consider the Gun
The director Lila Neugebauer interrogates the ghosts of “Uncle Vanya.”
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