Spatial Awareness
Writer Nicolaia Rips Reveals the Mustachioed, Cigar-Smoking Crush She’s Sustained Over the Past Two Decades
You don’t choose your first love, it chooses you. The author and native New Yorker contracted an infatuation with Groucho Marx as a toddler—one she’s still recovering from at the age of 26.
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Was ‘Past Lives’ the Most Grown-Up Film of the Year? One Writer Investigates the Emotional Turmoil of the Oscar Contender
The Virginia-born writer met their emotional match in filmmaker Celine Song’s minor-key sensation, Past Lives. Released last June and nominated for Best Picture and Original Screenplay at the Oscars, the film plumbs the murky depths of adulthood with an eye toward the ends we leave loose, and the ones we come home to.
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