
Why I Wear the Turban
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a spring day in 1993, my mom drove me to a hair salon in Linden, New Jersey, and got me a haircut. It was my first. I wasn’t yet three.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a spring day in 1993, my mom drove me to a hair salon in Linden, New Jersey, and got me a haircut. It was my first. I wasn’t yet three.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. “Constellation,” a Diane Arbus exhibition at…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We all have our distinct cinematic pressure points, specific kinds of images that trigger a burst of squeamishness. I instinctively cover my eyes whenever I see a character chopping food in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it’s based.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One afternoon in February of 2024, Grant Ford, an art adviser and dealer in the English town of Marlborough, received a phone call from a local lawyer named David J. Goldsmith.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk as vigorously…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The chef duo Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about a golem made of clay and summoned to life, through ritual…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Wednesday evening, when the new Czar of All the Arts, Donald Trump, went to see “Les Misérables”—which is, we are told, along with “Cats,” and “Evita,” a favored musical of…