I want to tell you about all of them, but I don’t want to deprive you of any of them. Where “Youarenowhere” used Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend,” “After” relies on Jefferson Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” a significant comedown. And in place of the sustained surprise of “Youarenowhere,” “After” is mostly a sequence of quick takes, frenetic and exact. Part collage art and part word salad, some lines sound lifted from a relationship spat, others repurposed from a self-actualization seminar. In “The Gates,” Mr. Gopnik tells how he and his wife, Martha Parker, twice made a home in New York — the second time when, after years abroad, they returned with their two children.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2018 20:14 UTC