Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sophy Romvari’s short film collapses the boundaries between two types of ministration: sex work and companion care. “Come spank me in Niagara,” a young woman says, cocking her orange curls to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Genre is a cursed thing. Dustin Guy Defa’s new movie, “The Adults,” isn’t really a musical, but the performances of music and dance that figure in it are both more dramatically…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor 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. After Ira…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Biking figures prominently in both our personal experiences of growth and in the popular imagination. Learning to ride a bike is often a child’s first taste of independence; the phrase “It’s…
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 in-box. At three-thirty on a Tuesday afternoon, in the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Canadian director Emma Seligman was only twenty-four when she shot her first feature film, the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby.” In the movie, which is based on a short that Seligman…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Bible is a foundational text in Western literature, ignored at an aspiring writer’s hazard, and when I was younger I had the ambition to read it cover to cover. After…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Conspiracy theories are faith-based history, and “Winter Kills,” a 1979 neo-noir, riffs on a scriptural pillar of this realm—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—with freewheeling speculations that feel both heretical…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Go to the Guggenheim Museum. Climb past the gift shops and walls of Gego and Picasso. Awaiting you on the top floor is the niftiest migraine you will ever experience. The…
