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The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as its subtitle. The…

Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is, delightfully, just…

Iran’s Daughters of the Sea

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hengam Island is a tropical isle off the coast of Iran, at the southern end of the Persian Gulf. Just fourteen square miles, it has three villages with only a few…

Taylor Swift’s Master Plan

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2014, Taylor Swift released an album called “1989,” marking her transition from country to pop. She went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” where the talk-show host read aloud from some early…

“Ballerina” Leaps Into John Wick’s Bloody World

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s been instructive to see “Ballerina,” which opens this week, so soon after the new “Mission: Impossible” installment. In the latter, it’s hard to top Tom Cruise’s intrepid stunt work, which…

The Heartrending Movies of John Cazale

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. With his sallow face and boulder-like…

Miley Cyrus Finally Makes an Album Worthy of Her Voice

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Two weeks ago, in the run-up to the release of her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” Miley Cyrus, who is thirty-two and one of the most successful pop stars of all…

“Mountainhead” Channels the Absurdity of the Tech Bro

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four tech billionaires walk into a mansion. It sounds like the setup for a punch line, but it also forms nearly the entire conceit behind “Mountainhead,” a savagely entertaining but somewhat…

What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled…