The Scholar of Comedy
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cartoon of Jerry Seinfeld is that he is the comedian who goes on “about nothing.” The nihilist of the Upper West Side. And yet Seinfeld is, like Chris Rock and…
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Are We Living Through a Bagel Renaissance?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few weeks ago, after a rare earthquake in New Jersey sent tremors through New York, giving the denizens of the five boroughs a mild shock and an immoderate jolt of…
How to Eat a Rattlesnake
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My mother made a point of raising well-spoken Oklahomans. In her household, country participles like “brang” were tantamount to slurs. I was a soft boy who spent most of my time…
What Cartoonists Saw in Isolation: A Portrait of the Pandemic
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…
“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” Is a Deceptively Plain Masterpiece
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…
Spoiler Alert: Leftovers for Dinner
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…
Teresita Fernández’s Shifting Sculptural Landscapes
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…
Mastering the Art of Making a Cookbook
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…
In Search of Lost Flavors in Flushing
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,…
The Dada Era of Internet Memes
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…
