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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT40Rmjwd-Q I think, as social primates, we want to feel a strong sense of belonging either in a relationship or to a community—or both. But also intrinsic to our humanity is a feeling that we are truly alone. —Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, 2010 When they first became friends, poet Tanya Davis and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman talked a lot about the pleasures […] Watch <i>How to Be at Home</i>, a Beautiful...

African-American hair has been making headlines for the last few years, usually because another black student has been deemed in violation of the dress code for sporting braids, dreads, or a natural afro. This year’s Oscar-winning animated short, "Hair Love," about an African-American dad’s attempt to stay on top of his 5-year-old daughter’s abundant locks, is […] Watch the Oscar-Winning Animated Short “Hair Love” is...

A month before Leonard Cohen died in November, 2016, The New Yorker's editor David Remnick traveled to the songwriter’s Los Angeles home for a lengthy interview in which Cohen looked both forward and back. As a former Zen monk, he was also adept at inhabiting the present, one in which the shadow of death crept ever closer. His former lover and muse, Marianne […] An Animated Leonard Cohen Offers Reflections on Death:...

Had the gloom-haunted Edward Gorey found a way to have a love child with Dorothy Parker, their issue might well have been Lemony Snicket, the pseudonymous author of a multivolume family chronicle brought out under the genteel appellation A Series of Unfortunate Events.  - Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Author Daniel Handler—aka Lemony Snicket—was but a child when he […] Lemony Snicket Reveals His Edward Gorey Obsession in...

While no longer a household name, the trailblazing journalist Nellie Bly (1864-1922) is definitely an enduring American icon. Her likeness has graced a postage stamp and a finger puppet. Her life has been the subject of numerous books and a made-for-TV movie. Some hundred years after its completion, her record-breaking, 72-day round-the-world trip inspired an episode of The American Experience, a puzzle-cum-boardgame, […] Watch an Animated Documentary About the Pioneering Journalist...