Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?

The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.

Jason Oder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman

How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.

An Iranian director’s ongoing meditations on the nature of illusion and reality, truth and consequences.

Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.

Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.