Worlds in Rooms
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with a painting,…
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How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might…
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Chiaroscuro at the Met”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the August 4, 2025, issue, the artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov depicted the scene in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a typical summer day. “The Met…
Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Candy Factory.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. Some forty years ago, Ann Ballentine, a real-estate agent with an eccentric sense of style…
A Young Parisian Chef’s Nouvelle Stodginess
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 inbox. One of the most compelling things about Le…
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few hours after the news of Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death began to spread, one of my closest friends called me. I knew before I picked up that he wanted to talk…
A Sensualist’s History of Gay Marriage and Immigration
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. There is a profuse longing for the foreseen. At least since the pandemic, I have…
Notes on Bed Rest
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in my first pregnancy, about three years ago, I did a thing that a lot of pregnant women do. I picked up my phone and scrolled through videos of pregnant…
“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a legal strategy known as the small-penis rule, wherein an author who writes a character based on a real person can potentially evade a libel suit by giving said character…
The Extravagant Eye of Charles Frederick Worth
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Charles Frederick Worth, the nineteenth-century designer widely credited as the inventor of haute couture, was not a modest man. “Madame, on whose recommendation have you come to me?” he is said…
