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Zara Larsson Gets Her Flowers
“Midnight Sun” is more adult, more sexed, and more camp than Larsson’s past music, which tended toward the subgenre known as tropical…
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Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free?
Twenty years ago, Hatmaker was much like Waters: a young pastor’s wife raising three little kids while writing her first books on Biblical…
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We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing
Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. Source link
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Broadway’s “Dog Day Afternoon” Is a Dog
Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots. Source link
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Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era
Over the years, Ye has amassed perhaps the most obsessive fan base in all of hip-hop, and some of them have carefully charted the…
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How to Measure the Good Life
In “The Meaning of Your Life,” he no longer trumpets free markets, extolls entrepreneurs, or praises work as “a blessing,” as he did in…
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The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel
But it isn’t just the narrator making free with his sources. Thomas bears a resemblance to, among others, Alexander Kluge, the acclaimed…
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“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” and Age of the Prestige Prank Show
Three years ago, the quasi-scripted comedy “Jury Duty,” an unassuming offering on the now defunct streaming service Freevee, became a…
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A “Baritenor” Soars in “Tristan und Isolde”
In Act I, the stage picture is cluttered, the meaning unclear. This is an all too familiar issue at the modern Met, which, under the aegis…
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“DTF St. Louis” Peers Into the Suburban Male Psyche
Starting in 2017, Bateman played Marty Byrde, an accountant turned cash launderer for a ruthless Mexican cartel, in “Ozark,” arguably his…
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Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
Phillips is a figure for our therapy-soaked era, even if, for him, therapy feeds into and enables life, whereas we often seem to view life…
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Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
It would appear, in synthesis and to borrow a pleasing opposition of human types from John Milton, that Morris was the active Allegro…
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How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
Late night isn’t just a time slot. It’s a concept, a temporal metaphor for what we can get away with under the cloak of night, when the…
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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good…
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Life in Hitler’s Capital
According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights…
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New York City Ballet Premières for the “No Kings” Era
But there is a problem: Beethoven begins to disappear. In the energy and flow of the dancing, the “Eroica” starts to sound like an…
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“Hate Radio” Chucks the Transcript
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths. Source link
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The Quad God and American Reckoning at the Olympics
Of course, it wasn’t just Malinin whose performance tugged my attention away from Italy and toward America. A handful of athletes from the…
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Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link
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Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
That a handful of revolutionaries could collect airliners worth millions of dollars and hold Western passengers ransom made it appear the…
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The Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset. Source link
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“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get…
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Morton Feldman’s Music of Stillness
“I really don’t feel that it’s all necessary anymore,” Morton Feldman told an interviewer in 1972. “And so what I try to bring into my…
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Easter Island and the Allure of “Lost Civilizations”
She also formed a bond with a Rapanui prophetess named Angata, the leader of an uprising against the sheep-ranching operation then…