Sarula Bao’s “Lunar New Year”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story February is often the harshest month of winter in the city, and can be hard on New Yorkers; but for Sarula Bao, the artist behind the February 5, 2024 cover—which she…

How Mads Mikkelsen Generates Sympathy for the Devil

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Although Mads Mikkelsen has been knighted by two separate countries for his services to the arts, he first came to the stage almost by accident. Born and raised in working-class Copenhagen,…

Listening to the N.F.L.

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Capitalism, as a couple of caustic observers once noted, makes everything solid melt into uncertain air, even collapsing the seasons one into the next. Under the stress of the economics of…