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The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa’s Photographs
It’s an understatement to say that we live in a world that is at least partially defined by a surfeit of images, and that the photographs…
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When the Religious Right Came for Martin Scorsese
In Mary Pratt Kelly’s “Martin Scorsese: A Journey,” the film’s director of photography likens the production to being in a war. Scorsese…
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In “Hacks,” Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages
The depth of Deborah and Ava’s unlikely bond led the show, in its home stretch, to what many viewers considered its best episode. In this…
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“Greater New York” Takes the Pulse of the City
Also: the megawatt hip-hop of Baby Keem, the buzzy period reimaginings of Scottish Ballet, the time-capsule documentary “With Hasan in…
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“Power Ballad,” Reviewed: A Bromantic Conflict Over a Hit Song
Unbeknownst to Rick, the track, a love song, is a phenomenon, with millions of streams. It becomes a No. 1 hit, and everyone—including Aja…
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What Happens When A.I. Becomes a Part of Everything?
“I Am Not a Robot” looks, superficially, like an attempt to assess the value of A.I.—a doomed endeavor, since the technology is always…
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The Stories That TV Tells About Online Sex Work
Much of the emotional potency of the show’s début season came from Levinson’s canny, perhaps even prescient, channelling of Zoomer…
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All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst
12. “Coward” After winning awards and generating controversy at Cannes for “Girl” (2019) and “Close” (2023), two queer coming-of-age…
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Everlane and the Death of the “Good” Millennial Life-Style Brand
In 2017, the clothing brand Everlane opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Nolita. Right down the block from the former location of…
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The Kids Are Not All Right at Cannes
Writing last week from the seventy-ninth Cannes Film Festival, I noted that some of the best movies to première here are often overlooked…
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The Revolutionary Force of Sonny Rollins
The album is called “A Night at The ‘Village Vanguard’ ”; it features Rollins in a trio, with only bass and drums, no piano, the effect of…
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Mark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball…
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Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
History is usually written in the third person, even though it has to be lived in the first, and Fehrman takes advantage of the rich and…
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What Dogs See When They Look at Us
Laqueur takes the reader on a nearly encyclopedic trip through this truth and its consequences, ranging from Giotto’s dogs—calm,…
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Cote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant
The restaurateur Simon Kim opened Cote in the Flatiron district, in 2017, with an alluring conceit: a marriage of two of the great…
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How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with…
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The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to…
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What Jack Kerouac Left Behind
Six months later, in February, 1943, most of the men Jack sailed with that summer—including Glory and the pastry chef—were killed when the…
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What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the…
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Dana White Thinks Everyone Is a Fighter—Especially Donald Trump
Why would that be? If your parents put you in martial arts when you were young, your parents had money. Martial-arts training isn’t cheap.…
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Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?
Society as a whole is shaped by the relentless pursuit of excellence in every domain. Cars and houses get bigger and bigger. Grades…
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“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy
As an aspiring designer herself, Corvette has a complex relationship with Christie: infuriated though she may be by Christie’s racist and…
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How Good Is the U.S. Men’s World Cup Team, Really?
Pochettino’s approach seems to involve preaching optimism and a “why-not-us?” ethos, channelling a dash of “Ted Lasso” into his sunny…
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The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”
Like the recent Broadway play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” “Well, I’ll Let You Go” is a portrait of people living in isolation, their walls…