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Zach Bryan’s Stubborn, Shaggy New Album
In 2019, it seemed possible that the next big country star would be a Navy aviation ordnanceman from Oklahoma named Zach Bryan, who…
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In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they…
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The New York Shooting That Defined an Era
“Death Wish” was the dark New York story of its era—an anti-“Annie Hall” for the armed and aggrieved. An architect sees his wife killed…
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Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy
The British Nigerian photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare took note of those aspects, capturing daily Lagos in his recent book, “Èkó,” a…
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The Robot and the Philosopher
Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been…
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In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious
In Cromer’s framing, that hollowness begins to feel like the play’s sad theme: when someone is on a desperate hunt for meaning, the source…
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The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal…
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Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside
Many will remember Daniil Simkin for his technically brilliant dancing at American Ballet Theatre. He is now a freelancer and a producer;…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Two
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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ICE’s New-Age Propaganda
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Late last year, the White House’s social-media…
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How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The latest and most vigorous addition to this genre is “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone” (Norton), by Quill Kukla, a…
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A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
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“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers
Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their…
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel, the author of “The…
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Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
After the incident, she needed reconstructive surgery, and had brain inflammation so severe that when she tried to look up, all she saw…
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
One year ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join…
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What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief. Her mother…
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science…
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Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That”
For the cover of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti depicted a time-honored way to shake off the…
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The Psychology of Fashion
Virginia Woolf had portrayed a similar tension between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself in…
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It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius
In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. Source link
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The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.”
In Sunday’s season finale of “I Love L.A.,” Los Angeles is blamed for getting between the show’s protagonist, Maia (Rachel Sennott), and…
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its…