Author: The New Yorker

Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction.

Who knows who you’ll bump into?

“Seeking Shelter,” “Dust and Light,” “What You Make of Me,” and “Casualties of Truth.”

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.

The battle for custody of a contested institution.

In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a phenomenon.

A tale of two schlepps.

Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.

Loathed even before its release, the latest live-action version of an animated classic embodies many of the cynical moves of the remake racket.

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of New York City.

A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?

The creators of the British miniseries think of the contemporary English boy as a fragile creature, abandoned by society.

Alain Guiraudie’s intimate thriller, about sex and death in a rustic village, bends classic tropes into modern forms.

Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.

The great veteran of Mafia roles, cast as the rival bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, anchors Barry Levinson’s exploration of mid-century Mob life.

At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of modernity.

In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world.

Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects.

It might allow us to keep everything, forever.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

Davey Wreden found acclaim in his twenties, with the Stanley Parable and the Beginner’s Guide. His new game, Wanderstop, grapples with the depression that followed.

In Philippe Lesage’s film, several strains of wounded masculinity derail an idyllic retreat in the mountains of Quebec.

Yale’s resident well-being expert talks about what it means to live a good life and shares some books that might help us get within reach of one.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.

Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen as different.

The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.

Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect.

The ne plus ultra of expense-account dining is making a comeback, with help from the indefatigable French chef Daniel Boulud.

The Netflix series, about a thirteen-year-old killer, attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.

The minds behind “You Me Bum Bum Train,” which has sparked a ticket frenzy, discuss re-creating real-life scenarios, crafting a show that gives people “epiphanies,” and why they ask participants to sign an N.D.A.

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.

Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

In its second season, the show continues to indict the corporate workplace while secretly longing for it.

The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.

During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.