On the morning after Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, in 2016, the White House was a funereal place. For weeks, Barack Obama and his inner circle had worried about Hillary Clinton’s campaign—the failure to visit crucial battleground states with sufficient frequency, the snooty crack about “deplorables,” James Comey’s last-minute letter to […]
In the course of the project, as Barbara grew older, Wywrot’s photographs became more collaborative, and more humorous, with mother and daughter messing around, staging scenes together. Wywrot told me that when her own creative energy collided with Barbara’s, a “fever would take over” and she’d go fetch her camera. One of the last images […]
The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can happen. Unlike the college-football playoffs—which are highly restrictive, and weighted toward bigger schools from powerhouse conferences—the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament features sixty-eight teams, playing in a sudden-death format. This produces as much good basketball as it […]
