Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 1979, the Jamaican chef Norma Shirley was fantasizing about a different future. Forty years old at the time, she had begun attracting national attention as the chef…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A hallmark of the narcissistic parent is how he surveys his offspring and designates a golden child and a scapegoat. One kid serves as the vessel for the narcissist’s vanity, the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Television loves found families: the broods of urban singles (“Friends”), the gradual coalescence among dissimilar roommates (“The Golden Girls”), the incestuous intimacy between co-workers (“The Office”), and, more recently, the chosen…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Craig Mazin sold “The Last of Us” to HBO, he described it as “a love story about how love makes people do terrible things.” In the course of the show’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Giancarlo Esposito stepped off the escalator at MOMA, a trio of security guards—all young men, Black or Latino—greeted him with knowing salutes. Who, I wondered, did they see? Was it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I like to keep the body active,” Danielle Deadwyler said, as she placed me in the center console of her car. It was a Monday in Atlanta, and we were video-chatting…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Trying to see every play in January is a fool’s errand. The various experimental-theatre festivals all happen at once. Even if you run from pillar to post, you’ll miss something—some dreamy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The musician Ahmad Jamal, who died on Sunday at the age of ninety-two, was a modest colossus of jazz who subtly cast his musical imagination across a wide spectrum of forms…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Lana Del Rey doesn’t toy with signs—of American glamour and its decay, of female melancholia and racial desire—so much as consecrate them.Photograph by Rich Fury / Getty One thing about Lana…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since the late nineteen-seventies, the Australian musician Nick Cave has given voice to our gnarliest impulses and fears. As a founding member of the cacophonous post-punk band the Birthday Party, he…
