Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When we first meet Shula (Susan Chardy), the quietly unbending protagonist of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” she is driving home from a fancy-dress party, wearing dark shades, a gleaming metal…
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 in-box. The International Center of Photography, founded,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Society has changed in monumental ways, the British historian Ruth Goodman observes, since the days “when we used scouring sand and wood ash to do the washing up”—and some of that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The circumstances surrounding the death of the actor Gene Hackman, at the age of ninety-five, have yet to be explained. On February 26th, his body was discovered at his home in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Any Oscars ceremony where most of the big prizes go to “Anora” and “The Brutalist”—two blazingly intelligent, vividly personal movies, both encouraging signs of an American independent cinema not yet in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the March 10, 2025, issue, Christoph Niemann sketched the view of New York Harbor from inside his former Brooklyn apartment. He wanted to capture the scene of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The expansive machinery of loss contains many moving parts, interconnected tragedies that occasionally become interconnected blessings. There is the tragedy and blessing of time, which opens up to the tragedy and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. With spring comes fresh air, and rebirth.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Film-festival juries are consistently inconsistent, and often arbitrarily assembled. Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Callers.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. During the eighteen minutes of “The Callers,” by the director Lindsey Dryden, viewers hear several people…