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Anora is a Movie about Marriage

Tara Isabella Burton on the runaway Oscar winner.

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Tara Isabella Burton
Mar 02, 2025
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The Academy Awards are tonight. Sean Baker’s Anora has been nominated for six Oscars. If you’re part of the ever-dwindling number of people who tune in to the Oscars, or even if you’re not, you’ll be glad you read this new look at the film by novelist and WoC contributor Țara Isabella Burton. The film, she argues, is an ode to marriage.

— Santiago Ramos, executive editor

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Tara Isabella Burton
Author of SELF-MADE, STRANGE RITES and the novels SOCIAL CREATURE, THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE, and HERE IN AVALON; writes on God, art, beauty, language, and imagination; in-progress: THE GREAT WORK, an intellectual history of magic and modernity
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