“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a New Yorker movie,” Wes Anderson explains. He and the actor Jeffrey Wright talk with David Remnick about “The French Dispatch,” a film inspired by writers and pieces from The New Yorker. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report—an unheeded warning from 1968 about the reality and the consequences of structural racism.
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
The director and one of the stars of the new film, which is about the writers of a magazine, explain the fictional publication’s uncanny similarities to The New Yorker.
Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker
Cast members of Wes Anderson’s new film, which is inspired by The New Yorker, read classic works associated with the magazine.
Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
More than half a century after the report was published, white America still struggles to acknowledge its conclusion: structural racism is the root cause of inequality and unrest in the United States.
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