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.…
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The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus
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…
“Familiar Touch” Is an Exquisitely Fragmentary Portrait of Memory Loss
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…
Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line
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.…
A Forgotten Surrealist’s Paintings Return to New York
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.…
Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood
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…
“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures
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…
Restaurant Review: Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing
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…
Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
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…
What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
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…
