Annotated by the Author: ‘College Football Prospects Actually Signing on Signing Day? That’s So...
You can find more of Mr. Blinder’s work here.“College Football Prospects Actually Signing on Signing Day? That’s So 2017,” by Alan BlinderImageCollege football’s national signing day was more than a week away, but P. J. Fleck, the coach at Minnesota, had little reason to care.He had finished recruiting this year’s class before Christmas.Alan Blinder: Before…
Annotated by the Author: ‘Meet “Supergirl,” the World’s Strongest Teenager’
“In school plays, I get stage fright, but I don’t have stage fright in powerlifting, even if I’m in front of hundreds of people,” said Naomi, whose modern Orthodox Jewish family follows strict religious rules.It’s always tricky to select the best quotes. You try to pick ones that add something new to the story, not…
Annotated by the Author: ‘New York Penn Station: Incoherent Urban Calamity’
“New York Penn Station: Incoherent Urban Calamity” by Henry HsiaoCredit...Image courtesy of Henry HsiaoArriving today in New York’s Pennsylvania Station — as any commuter, tourist, or local may attest — is a degraded business. Previously, it was an awe-inspiring affair. Consider old Penn Station, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece of imposing grandeur and soaring arches that once…
Annotated by the Author: ‘The Cultural Canon Is Better Than Ever’
It also forced people to discover — or rediscover — Julie Dash’s film “Daughters of the Dust,” just in time for its 25th anniversary. A sweeping, nonlinear meditation on the Great Migration as seen through three generations of Gullah women, “Daughters” became the first feature film directed by a black woman to have a wide…
Annotated by the Author: ‘Tiny Tyrannosaur Hints at How T. Rex Became King’
If you and your students find this new annotation feature useful, please let us know in the comments or by writing to LNFeedback@nytimes.com. We are considering asking other Times journalists to do the same.“Tiny Tyrannosaur Hints at How T. Rex Became King,” by Nicholas St. FleurImageTyrannosaurs weren’t always tyrants. For millions of years, the ancestors…
Annotated by the Author: ‘Review of “Dune”: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting...
That impulse to linger is understandable given the monumentality of Villeneuve’s world building (and its price tag). But the movie’s spectacular scale combined with Herbert’s complex mythmaking also creates a not entirely productive tension between stasis and movement. Not long after he lands on Dune, Paul is ushered into the new world of its tribal…
