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L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch
There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in its steadfast, defiant plainness, nestles next to two scoops...
Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings
I consumed the nineties Black horror films of my youth largely through my fingers, spreading them just wide enough, occasionally, to put a visual to some discomforting sound. The...
Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
Hilton AlsStaff writerIn 1971, the painter, quilter, and children’s-book author Faith Ringgold went to prison. She was not incarcerated; she went as an artist and an activist, to create...
Reëxamining Romantic Tropes with the Ripped Bodice
In 2016, Leah Koch and her sister Bea Hodges-Koch opened the Ripped Bodice, a romance bookstore, in Los Angeles. Since then, the genre has exploded—between 2020 and 2023, print...
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Not long ago, the American public could have been forgiven for thinking of Elon Musk’s vaunted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a version of a familiar Republican cost-cutting,...
The Nocturnal Masterwork “Toute Une Nuit” Comes to Light
When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in...
Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would make his ideal cast. The gist of...
Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred
A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from their time in Paris during...
An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even harder, by reluctant...
