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Ana Juan’s “Clickbait”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Parents aren’t the only caretakers who have to negotiate their children’s relationship to screens—some pet owners also use apps to keep their animals occupied. For the cover of the April 22…

How to Publish a Magazine in a Maximum-Security Prison

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1961, Wilbert Rideau, a nineteen-year-old with an eighth-grade education, robbed a bank in Lake Charles, the small Louisiana town where he lived. During a botched getaway, he killed a teller…

Restaurant Review: Corima

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. Before opening Corima, in a moody, rustic space…

The Avant-Garde Is Back on the Launchpad

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Once upon a time, in New York, we measured our lives in Richard Foreman productions. For decades, the crocus of our theatrical spring was the widespread wheat-pasting of his black-and-white posters…

Alex Garland and Park Chan-wook Reckon with America

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture Editor 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. Kirsten Dunst…

The Heart of Low

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last winter, I flew to Minneapolis to hear a funk quartet play at a bar. The weather was miserable: hard-frozen snowbanks in every gutter, skating-rink sidewalks, roads so ripped up by…

Can a Film Star Be Too Good-Looking?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The weather for New York on Friday, April 12th, is set to be overcast, with an average temperature of fifty-two degrees. Rain may be waiting in the wings. So, here’s an…

The Counterculture Counter Culture of Kim’s Video

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When home video became popular, in the early eighties, I was young, underemployed, and incredulous that anyone who lived in a city teeming with repertory houses (such as New York or…

The Dumbphone Boom Is Real

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if the billionaire would actually notice. Stults’s partner,…

John Cazale’s Barbaric Squawk

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The list of offenses is long, but let’s start with his jacket. It is a rich shade of burgundy, the color of a bruise, and not remotely flattering to the pale…