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. Beguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice? This uncertainty…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the April 7, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt borrows the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Strong Grandma.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. At ninety-five years old, Catherine Kuehn was a world-record-holding powerlifter. “It’s been very easy for me,”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Netflix is currently ranking the British miniseries “Adolescence” as its most-watched television show among Americans. The streaming service shrouds the methods by which it reaches these metrics in a lot of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Film Forum showed “Last Tango in Paris” this past December, as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the venue’s web page for the screening included a note stating that “lead…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds up: PowerPoints…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Bird flu has made buying chicken eggs so unpredictable! Prices are high, and then they’re lower again; grocery-store shelves are bare, but only sometimes! Are there eggs from other birds that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After…