Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on December 25th, simplifies Bob Dylan’s early professional life and dilutes its…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlene Croce, who wrote the Dancing column in The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on December 16th, at the age of ninety. She was a towering figure, a critic…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story RaMell Ross walks us through a pivotal scene in his début fiction feature, “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead. Ross has spent years honing his skills as…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before social networks became the de-facto place for logging mundane moments from our lives, Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch incorporated a feature that let users send footage they’d filmed directly to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It is not good to go back on a covenant, even one implicitly made and foggy regarding what would constitute a violation. Few monogamous couples, that is, get down to the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “A Complete Unknown,” the new film directed by James Mangold, a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) impulsively slips into a movie theatre with his girlfriend, Sylvie (Elle Fanning), to catch…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I had my worst-ever packing experience in the late nineties, when I was a teen-ager. My mother and I were returning from a trip to Ireland. Before leaving home, we’d overpacked…