Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cover of the October 21, 2024, issue, by Owen Smith, is a portrait of Alexei Navalny, an excerpt of whose prison diaries appears in the issue. Navalny details the final…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’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. On and Off the Avenue Rachel…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The one element of movie art that “The Apprentice” spotlights is acting. A dramatization of Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, the film features a cast of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story During the past decade, the journalist Taylor Lorenz has been known for writing about Internet influencers from within legacy media, translating the arcane laws of online virality for the traditional news…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Just about every aspect of “The Outrun” feels synthetic except for the sincerity that all of its prime collaborators put into it. An adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir of the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Public Defender.” “You can see the Capitol from here,” Heather Shaner, a criminal-defense lawyer, says as she walks with her client Jack Griffith, a.k.a. Juan Bibiano, a.k.a. Liberty Dragon, to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard to imagine…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ryan Murphy’s true-crime series seldom drop without a splash. Shows like “American Crime Story” and “Monster” have their own gravitational pull, and so their revisionism matters. “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Around fifteen years ago, an old college friend of mine had a close call in the mountains. He and a companion were on a ski trip when they decided to hike…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a summer evening many years ago, my father and I sat on the roof of our family home in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, and we talked about my grandfather…
