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Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments”
With the frantic pace of modern life, it’s easy for the days to turn into weeks to turn into months without notice. But as the final moments of a...
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past...
He’s Making a List, and Checking It Twice
He may also run it through ChatGPT, just to polish it up. Source link
For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words
Isabella Rossellini’s first exposure to the public glare was at five days old. Her father, the Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini, and her mother, the Swedish movie icon Ingrid...
The Best Theatre of 2024
In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit...
How Dare Celebrities Cheat?
It is not good to go back on a covenant, even one implicitly made and foggy regarding what would constitute a violation. Few monogamous couples, that is, get down...
Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery”
For the cover of the December 23, 2024, issue, Kate Beaton created an image that doubles as a simple game. (To play, see the word bank below. Print subscribers...
Up from Urkel, World-Famous Nerd
Toward the end of Jaleel White’s new memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” the actor runs through a list of regrettable life experiences. There’s an agent he wishes he’d never worked...
The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Greene’s nearly decade-long collaboration with Morgan was arguably the most important relationship of her life outside her family, and I think the curators have done a terrific job of...
Three Exceptional Panettones
When it comes to the Italian holiday loaf, there’s magnificence and there’s stultifying disappointment, with little in between. Source link
Have the Democrats Become the Party of the Élites?
Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? So glad you asked. Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because the answer is so simple that it can be...
Hotter and Hotter
Living through the onset of rapid global warming involves learning to roll with the punches. Increasingly, those are quite real and painful—this year saw, again, an accelerating toll of...