Alexandra Schwartz
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- Aug 21, 2026
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The Coming (and Not Coming) of the Sex-Recession Movie (opens the original)
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In February, I went to see Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” at my local movie theatre, in Brooklyn. Next to me sat a man and a woman in their twenties. Early in the film, as Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Cathy (Margot Robbie) breathlessly spy on a couple of servants engaging in a bout of horse-and-rider-themed roleplay, the man beside me began to squirm. This display of light bondage proved merely an amuse-bouche to the erotic banquet that Fennell had prepared. There are no sex scenes in Em
Criticsâ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on âSlings & Arrowsâ (opens the original)
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Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. During her tenure as The New Yorkerâs television critic, Emily Nussbaum famously railed against ranking the yearâs best shows; she once wrote a piece titled âI Hate Top Ten Lists.â But naming her favorite series of all time is an easier proposition, and the honor goes to a little-known Canadian production from the early two-thousands that dramatized the colorful
The Doulas Who Help Us Die (opens the original)
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Before meeting a client, Virginia Chang, an end-of-life doula, performs a ritual that she calls “becoming an empty vessel.” She closes her eyes, plants her feet on the ground, and holds her arms at her sides, palms up. She breathes deeply through her nose. To still her mind, she begins to quietly chant a Sanskrit mantra such as lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu—may all beings everywhere be happy and free. Then she starts to move, pushing her hands away from her body, raising them above her head, a
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