Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the novel coronavirus began to spread across the globe in 2020, Gabe Fowler, the founder of the Comic Arts Brooklyn festival and owner of the Desert Island Comics shop, in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A decade ago, thinking about a pair of independent films more than a generation apart—Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” (1978) and Alex Ross Perry’s “The Color Wheel” (2011)—I was struck by how much…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “This is shockingly delicious,” a pulmonologist friend and guest at a potluck dinner I hosted a few weeks ago said, as she lifted a third forkful to her mouth. “I’ve never…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff Writer You’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. I didn’t…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “What is that you so beautifully do?” Henry James is said to have once asked someone, somewhere or other. And for no tribe of workers does the question make more sense…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To get from Manhattan to Flushing by public transport, your best bet is the 7 train, though chances are it won’t be your only train. If you live downtown, like me,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last December, a factory in the Chinese province of Hebei called Donghua Jinlong posted a marketing video to TikTok showing aerial clips of its campus set to a jaunty tune. A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, as the pandemic was loosening its grip on the world, and as I started to recover from the aftereffects of a botched childhood circumcision that had returned to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch J. J. Kandel’s film, “Sparring Partners.” “How do people meet each other?” the director J. J. Kandel asked me, bluntly. “How do you meet people?” The most common answers might…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One day last year in Paris, I went to the Musée de Cluny, a temple to the tactile esoterica of medieval France. I remember seeing braids of wooden hair, a marble…
