Working with Joan Acocella
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, I became a kind of undertaker. I was a fact checker at this magazine until recently and, in the final months of my tenure, it felt as if…
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The Horrifying and Humanistic Ending of “The Curse”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The finale of “The Curse,” the oddest and most original show on television right now, opens with Asher and Whitney Siegel, the grin-and-bear-it married couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma…
Kate Zambreno Collects Herself
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Toward the end of “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno’s memoir of the early pandemic, she describes corresponding with a friend, the author and professor Sofia Samatar, about the difference between hoarding…
The Shareable Feast of Jeremy Allen White’s Calvin Klein Ad
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 4th, a TikTok user with the handle @aaliyarae uploaded a video of three friends on an erotic pilgrimage to the corner of Crosby and Houston. Earlier that day, Calvin…
One Man’s Fight to Close the Racial Wealth Gap, in “The Barber of Little Rock”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlo Washington peers out the car window as he drives through the capital of Arkansas. He wears a royal-blue polo; his Afro is close-cropped. With soft, alert eyes, he surveys the…
When Lee Miller Took a Bath in Hitler’s Tub
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On April 30, 1945, the photojournalist Lee Miller took a bath in Hitler’s tub. A correspondent for British Vogue, Miller had posted up in the Führer’s abandoned apartment in Munich along…
“All of Us Strangers” Is a Romantic Fantasy About Filmmaking
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the British director Andrew Haigh’s earlier films—“Weekend” (2011), “45 Years” (2015), and “Lean on Pete” (2017)—the images did much less of the work than the script and the actors. There…
The Arts Center at Ground Zero Is Finally Here. Can Bill Rauch Make It Work?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Bill Rauch became obsessed with the survival of theatre as an undergraduate at Harvard, in the early nineteen-eighties. He’d already decided that he wanted to be a stage director, and was…
The Compassionate Music of Meshell Ndegeocello
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff 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. January—stay with…
The Best Diners Are Still Just Diners
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. I always read the whole menu at a…
