“This film, set in the near future, brings to life the inevitable sadness and the beauty of the human experience as we follow a relationship between a man grieving a lost marriage and his new-found AI companion.” 2. Jojo Rabbit (2019) Glass never thought a comedy-drama set in Nazi Germany during the second world war … Read more
On my only trip to Berlin, in 2019, I saw a lot of Käthe Kollwitz. I walked through Kollwitzstrasse and Kollwitzplatz, near the site of her home, in Prenzlauer Berg. At the Staatliche Museen and at the museum that bears her name, I studied her etchings, with their threadlike details of landscapes of combat, and … Read more
His first surgical operation was completed around February, 1936. The technology for female-to-male surgeries was limited; the first phalloplasty wasn’t performed until that fall, in Russia. Koubek never described his procedure except to say that it “did not hurt me at all.” After the second operation, a nurse led him to the men’s ward, where … Read more
X CEO Elon Musk has claimed that social media could have prevented the Holocaust, and it would have been difficult to hide it if there had been freedom of speech. Musk made the comments after visiting the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland on Monday. He made the claims during a discussion with commentator … Read more
