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The Ministry of Joyce McDonald’s Sculptures
Terence Davies, who died in 2023, at the age of seventy-seven, is the most original modern British director. He was in his forties when he…
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What to Make of the Mother Who Made You
It is hard to overstate the literary impact, in 1997, of Arundhati Roy’s début novel, “The God of Small Things.” A family drama set in a…
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The Waldorf-Astoria’s Fresh Bid for Dining Relevance
Waldorf has brought in Michael Anthony, the longtime executive chef of Gramercy Tavern (where he remains), to create the menu. A hotel…
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The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez
In this “El Monte,” the science of ethnography is traded for something less rigid, something more whimsical and unconstrained. Whereas…
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“Ritu,” by Akhil Sharma
Everyone was looking at us as though they all knew that Ritu had done the work and I had tried to mooch off her. Source link
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André Holland on Stories of Community
It’s about to be a very busy season for the actor André Holland. His latest film, “Love, Brooklyn,” begins its theatrical run on August…
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Racing Mount Pleasant Makes Quiet Emotions Sound Grand
The Frank O’Hara poem “Katy” features seven lines of self-assessing declarations. It is the fifth line that I get the most mileage out of:…
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When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
“The Man can’t bust our music,” an advertisement in the underground newspaper Berkeley Barb proclaimed, in November, 1968. The…
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“Eden” Is a Desert-Island Thriller That Despoils Itself
The new movie “Eden” features bursts of foul temper, wild sex, grisly violence, and nihilist ideology—a departure, you might say, for Ron…
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Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings,…
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed…
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How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The…
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New York City, Taco Town
Santo Taco, one of the newest of the newcomers, opened this spring, in a sliver-slim SoHo space that previously housed La Esquina’s…
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The High Femme Dystopia of Star Amerasu
If the recent embrace of seemingly—and only seemingly—autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future…
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My Mother, New Orleans
My father, who was born in New Orleans and who died there just last year, used to always say, “Funny that they call this the Big Easy.” In…
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Anthony Roth Costanzo Channels Maria Callas in “Galas”
Plus: the eclectic chaos of Haim, Trajal Harrell struts the catwalk at Park Avenue Armory, “Mamma Mia!” returns to Broadway, and more.…
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“Splitsville” Plays Infidelity for Laughs; “A Little Prayer” Shows What’s Really at Stake
In the studiedly rambunctious comedy “Splitsville,” Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin play a pair of homewreckers. The home, a…
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“Honey Don’t!” Revives the Spirit of the Coen Brothers’ Movies
The main elements of Ethan Coen’s new film, “Honey Don’t!,” are sex and violence. Both involve profound sensations and potentially…
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Hilton Als’s Essential James Baldwin
A hundred and one years after James Baldwin’s birth, the writer has become as much an icon as a public intellectual can be—a status that,…
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The Redemption of Chance the Rapper
When Chance the Rapper declared “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail” on “Ultralight Beam,” the opener from West’s 2016 album, “The…
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The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
“A person’s tennis,” John McPhee writes in “Levels of the Game,” from 1969, “begins with his nature and background and comes out through…
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The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K.
The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a favored holiday retreat, both for summertime…
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Showdown in the Oval
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