Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a master class in performance, look no further than Todd Haynes’s new film, “May December,” which arrives on Netflix on December 1st. Julianne Moore plays Gracie, who was the subject…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Marina HarssCulture writer You’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 in-box. It’s that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent evening, Pasha Boyer, a thirty-two-year-old father and professional sports bettor who lives in Missoula, Montana, logged on to TikTok to continue what has become an unpaid full-time job:…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The documentary—a mix of interviews, archival footage, and home videos—plays a bit like a eulogy, albeit a funny one. Bob Newhart and Don Rickles occupied separate spheres in the comedy world…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was another tumultuous year for the podcast industry, with layoffs and cancellations at Spotify, Pushkin, WNYC, and NPR, which cut four of its series and ten per cent of its…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the city, poetry is everywhere. It’s interwoven with the dense urban fabric of the everyday, present in the mundanities of human coexistence and in the extremes of creative self-exertion. For…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Louise Bonnet’s large-scale paintings depict spectacular, Surrealist-tinged visions in which distended, grotesque bodies take center stage. Figures with engorged limbs, teeny heads, conical breasts, and curled appendages hover on the spectrum…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I call ahead. A recording announces that the reservation book is closed but doesn’t mention walk-ins. After putting on some makeup, a silk shirt, and heels, I begin my nearly two-hour…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A comedy routine often benefits from a straight man. When Carl Reiner died, in 2020, the Times noted that, as the foil to the likes of Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the annals of American time, the November 22nd that happened sixty years ago today still casts a very long shadow. It is a cliché, but true nonetheless, that certain events…