Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We don’t traffic in rumors, but, if we did, there’d be plenty to choose from. If you were cruising the Internet last week, you may have come across an urgent appeal…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Michael SchulmanStaff 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. Is it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I’m cooking for myself, the question I nearly always start with is: how much effort am I willing to make today? When I’m cooking for anyone else, the question is…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The other day, unprompted, the phrase “be kind, rewind” began to bounce around in my head, and it struck me that I am of the last generation who will instantly understand…
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…
