The second time, he is alone, and his father is becoming a thing, an object.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall

Get Michael Graves to design a toilet brush (as Target did) and you turn a mundane thing into an object of desire.

FORBES: A Story Goes With It

By combining realism and artifice, he got the essential thing right: in a tsunami, the distinction between one object and another dissolves.

NEWYORKER: The Impossible

The Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona got the essential thing right: in a tsunami, the distinction between one object and another dissolves.

NEWYORKER: Stiff Upper Lips

That's the amazing thing about photography, says Ronen Goldman: If the light falls on the object just the right way, if the shadows line up naturally, our brains allow us to believe the unbelievable.

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