Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Wes Anderson’s new quartet of films, based on stories by Roald Dahl, which dropped on Netflix last week, may be brief—three are seventeen-minutes long, one runs thirty-nine—but there’s nothing minor about…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the pleasures of living in the city is the proximity to so many disparate lives, a constellation of inner worlds imagined but unknown. Nicole Rifkin, an illustrator and graphic…
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. Gus’s Chop House, which opened a little more…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard BrodyStaff 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. It was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2019, the literary magazine NOON published a story by Lydia Davis called “The Language of Armagnac,” a quietly comic meditation on the difficulties of translating “the patois of the city…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A falling off can indicate decline or diminishment, often gradual—the petering out of a business, for instance, or the decay of a once marvellous building. Or it can refer to something…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Here is a story I wasn’t sure my sister would ever let me tell. I come from a churchgoing family, but one Sunday my sister did not go to worship, even…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The New York Film Festival begins Friday. As I noted last year, the festival’s main slate is increasingly given over to movies by major Hollywood figures. (This year’s opening night brings…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Olivia Rodrigo is the owner of arguably the most famous driver’s license in the history of automobiles. COVID swept the world when she had just turned seventeen. A California kid, a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “What would happen if five of America’s top eleven most beloathed talk-show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour?” Jimmy Kimmel says at the start of the…
