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Father’s Day is just around the corner, but the nation’s marketers won’t be pushing you to shop for Dear Old Dad the way they [...]
I turned fifty last week, and the next morning, I got a text from CVS advertising the shingles vaccine. “Happy birthday!” it might have [...]
While our city does not have the equivalent of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner, it did stage an annual luncheon meeting for [...]
While waiting in the lavatory line, during a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to New York in April, I was struck by the image [...]
Then&Now
Essays by Christopher Winner
Termination
This is a very short story about my two children. One is Jason, by now close to 45, and Nedra, who, last I was [...]
A dollar gets a dime
Toward the end of his life, long after battles won and lost, brute temper and trivial anger exhausted, my father spoke often of the [...]
Deep blue sea
Smaller than small, I once set out on a a great adventure at the Washington aquarium, another way of saying I became lost. I [...]
Conclave of three doors
The death of Pope Francis was coming for some time. Now, cardinals will face some hard choices, most of which reside behind three doors. [...]
In Case You Missed It
What college has to answer for
The younger residents in my apartment building seem stuck in college. They wear pajamas and slippers in public spaces. They [...]
Film: “Michael” (2026)
What’s not to like about this boisterous two-hour biopic about pop music legend Michael Jackson? It captures all the flamboyant [...]
Is the old man back again?
There is a scene in "It’s a Wonderful Life," Frank Capra’s 1946 movie, in which the protagonist George Bailey jumps [...]
Film: “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man”
There’s always a danger in making a feature-length movie to expand upon a successful TV series: The narrative arc of [...]
Review: Reservoir Bitches
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025 after its debut in 2024, Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda [...]
Dry plaster & dandelions
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci chose to paint The Last Supper on dry plaster instead of the conventional method, [...]
Character witnesses
The other day I was thinking to myself, the way a totally normal, not guilty, super innocent person does, about [...]
Hong Kong attraction, part 5
After I stepped across the threshold of the legendary Mandarin Oriental, in Hong Kong, everything changed. That very long journey [...]