Why Do We Talk This Way?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Just before the election, I went to see a play. It was staged for a small group, was about ninety minutes long, and was followed by a Q. & A. For…
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El Museo del Barrio Offers a Timely Triennial of Latino Art
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The second triennial survey at El Museo del Barrio, “Flow States,” is loosely organized around the concept of diasporas and the movements of people across nations, geographies, and cultures. A major…
Javier Mariscal’s “Desk with a View”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most New Yorkers don’t spend their lives on the waterfront (except, of course, a lucky few), but we are frequently reminded that the city is surrounded by water when we catch…
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a cool night this past spring, the line outside the Blue Note ran down the block, causing enough of a scene that a young man stopped to ask, “Who’s it…
Restaurant Review: Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar
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. The Michelin-star obsessives and tasting-menu connoisseurs of the…
Documentaries of Dissent
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A reader comes to a piece of criticism with a basic assumption: the critic is writing about a work that the reader can eventually go and seek out herself. Reviews are…
Bearing Witness to American Exploits
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Peter van Agtmael was in college, he bought a collection of pictures taken by photojournalists who had died while covering the Vietnam War. “The pictures that shaped my understanding of…
“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R” from France, during the Second World War, when ordinary people organized…
The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank
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. There’s a…
A Woman Wonders if She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “I’m Not a Robot.” “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away at their laptops. Walls of windows…
