Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, the American public could have been forgiven for thinking of Elon Musk’s vaunted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a version of a familiar Republican cost-cutting, government-shrinking project.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Last of the Nightingales.” For Bernie Krause, the sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. The musician and Hollywood sound engineer is a pioneer of soundscape…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1975, Akerman…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a competitive marketplace devoted…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A sense of abasement hovers over the performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there. The musician selected must be an internationally recognized star, and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She looks at her hand: Isn’t it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work from bold new filmmakers into a fickle, yet potentially receptive, movie-loving…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled. “I said, ‘No, I’m recommending…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide, detailing how to curate word lists, use software to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or photography typical of magazine covers. What gives the…
