Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If you attended the 2019 Venice Biennale, you might have waited in a long line to see the prize-winning piece “Sun & Sea (Marina),” an opera performance staged by three Lithuanian…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart,’ ” Alice Munro, who died on Monday, at age…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story By now, most of the great jazz artists from the mid-century crucibles of bebop and its avant-garde successors are gone, and most of the rest, in their eighties and nineties, have…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1987, when Palestinians rose up against the Israeli occupation in what would become known as the first intifada, I was six years old. Each evening, when Peter Jennings delivered the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A child we cannot see is in danger. We hear the beeping of medical monitors. We hear his nurse say, with sudden sharpness, “I don’t like this.” We hear his mother’s…
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 in-box. The day before your dinner at Blanca, you…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Cézanne doesn’t cut it.” When I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over my head. Peter, at these dinners, where no one was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I went swimming with my two daughters when they were both expecting babies. The three of us had gone away for the weekend, and were staying at a hotel in Port…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past Tuesday, May 7th, the
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the past week, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, separated in age by less than a year and foiled by reputation, have traded swipes in a beef already deemed historic. This is…
