Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I first met Carla Williams a few years ago at Material Life, a shop that she owned in New Orleans specializing in Black art and cultural artifacts. I was enamored by…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last week, André Benjamin, best known as André 3000, one-half of the hip-hop duo OutKast, finally released his début solo album. Over the past decade, Benjamin, who is forty-eight, has chosen…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The joy of eating in France has long been that one can do so superbly at a reasonable price. Isaac Babel’s 1934 short story “Rue Dante” records: We ate lunch at…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff 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. The actress…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Baroque Neapolitan CrècheThe city of Naples is synonymous with the crèche, or Nativity scene, an art form that reached its apogee there in the eighteenth century. Every year, families and churches…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The enduring appeal of “The Morning Show” has become one of the great mysteries of modern television. The Apple TV+ series, which stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as onetime hosts…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Is liking Ayn Rand a personality defect? Before she was the godmother of American libertarianism, Rand was a writer known for insisting on the virtue and beauty of self-interest. To her…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Wednesday, an account on X named @breakingbaht posted a message that read, “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was forty years ago, so the memory has likely degraded beyond recognition, but what I seem to recall is that I never expected to be given a Cabbage Patch Kid.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This Thursday, dining tables and social-media feeds across the country will be brimming with Thanksgiving feasts; Americans will snap pictures of everything from their perfectly arranged spreads to the messy—but strategically…