Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. If the recent embrace of seemingly—and only seemingly—autonomous machines is any indication, something much less…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most of us feel raised by the places where we were born, but, at the risk of offending people born in every other place, I believe that people from New Orleans…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori appeared to Ketaki Sheth as a kind of apparition. A photographer from Mumbai, Sheth owns a home in the coastal village, about a sixty-kilometre drive…
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. A portrait of Anthony Roth Costanzo…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The main elements of Ethan Coen’s new film, “Honey Don’t!,” are sex and violence. Both involve profound sensations and potentially life-changing events; both reveal personality at its most feral and primal.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Chance the Rapper declared “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail” on “Ultralight Beam,” the opener from West’s 2016 album, “The Life of Pablo,” the sentiment seemed self-evident.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For many of us, spending time at the beach is one of the highlights of summer. The cover of the August 25, 2025, issue, by the artist Sergio García Sánchez and…
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. Few words in the English language have the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a few weeks each August, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe fill every theatre, student center, lecture hall, and pub basement in the Scottish capital with performances.…
