Roz Chast’s “Bird Bath”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roz Chast chose to portray a chicken in a bath for the January 29, 2024, cover for a very simple reason: she likes birds. She also happens to be quite a…
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Ava DuVernay Wants to Build a New System
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Brody, whose writing about movies runs under the rubric The Front Row, never ceases to surprise me, and enlighten me, with his critical judgment. Like another colleague, Anthony Lane, he…
A Tasting Menu with a Bit of Noma in Its DNA
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. Midway through a recent meal at Ilis, a…
Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening pages of “Private Equity,” a memoir about working in high finance in the early twenty-tens, the author, Carrie Sun, is asked in a job interview why she wants…
Nineteenth-Century Clickbait
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Lev Rubinstein, a Devoted and Defiant Lover of Language
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Lev Rubinstein, who died in Moscow on Sunday, at the age of seventy-six, invented a new kind of poetry and also, perhaps, a new way of living. Rubinstein, who spent years…
How Ava DuVernay Restages History in “Origin”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ava DuVernay’s sprawling film “Origin,” an adaptation of the journalist and historian Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” spans the globe and bounces through time to illustrate its…
Compagnie Hervé Koubi Renders Movement Into Poetry
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor 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. This winter…
Francis Ford Coppola’s “One from the Heart” Is Exactly What Its Title Says
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It has been a while since Francis Ford Coppola made a new feature—and a very long while since he made his greatest ones. (I’m hoping that his forthcoming “Megalopolis” proves to…
The Weird, Enduring Appeal of Tool
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If you were listening to rock radio in the early nineteen-nineties, you might have heard a song called “Sober,” which reflected the genre’s new mood. In the wake of Nirvana’s success,…