Books & Culture
Personal History
My Mother, the Gambler
For a long time, I didn’t know that what my mother was doing—playing the so-called Italian lottery—was illegal. She certainly didn’t look like a criminal.
By Victor Lodato
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A Critic at Large
Beware of Sharkless Waters
Our nightmares may be haunted by circling dorsal fins—but there’s something more sinister happening below the surface of the sea.
By Katherine Rundell
The Weekend Essay
Inside Out
The magical in-betweenness—and surprising epidemiological history—of the porch.
By David Owen
Infinite Scroll
Making Memes for the Global “Oat Milk Élite”
A loose federation of hyperlocal Instagram accounts are both satirizing and codifying the habits of a homogenous consumer class.
By Kyle Chayka
Cultural Comment
Kamala Harris, the Candidate
The Vice-President, who is set to win the Democratic nomination, has graduated from limbo.
By Doreen St. Félix
Books
Books
How Christian Fundamentalism Was Born Again
Nearly a century ago, a single trial seemed to shatter the movement’s place in America. It’s returned in a new form—but for old reasons.
By Michael Luo
Flash Fiction
“The Boy at War and at Home”
His toy cars are out of gas, creating chaos at the checkpoint, but the plastic horses can still get through.
By Beth Bachmann
Under Review
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By The New Yorker
Movies
The Front Row
The Return of “No Fear, No Die,” Claire Denis’s First Masterwork
This 1990 drama reveals, in documentary-like detail, the power and the politics of an illegal cockfighting ring.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
“Fly Me to the Moon” Lacks Mission Control
This rom-com about the marketing of the Apollo space program, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, has an inconsistent tone and a vague point of view.
By Richard Brody
The New Yorker Interview
Kevin Costner Goes West Again
The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.
By David Remnick
The Front Row
An Ingenious New French Comedy of Art and Friendship
The director Pascale Bodet works wonders in “Vas-Tu Renoncer?,” based on the relationship of Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire.
By Richard Brody
Food
On and Off the Menu
Tea and Beachside High Jinks in Provincetown
The town’s restaurants evince a singular mix of gay utopia and New England kitsch.
By Hannah Goldfield
The Food Scene
A Brooklyn Tasting Menu with Manhattan Ambition
Clover Hill offers the kind of technique-oriented cooking that usually emerges from the city’s billionaire canteens—and prices to match.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly Fine
Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be.
By Helen Rosner
On and Off the Menu
The Era of the Line Cook
In a dinner series called the Line Up, line cooks, sous-chefs, and chefs de cuisine from buzzy New York restaurants get to be executive chefs for a night.
By Hannah Goldfield
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Photo Booth
James Casebere’s Visions from After the Flood
In Casebere’s pictures from the exhibition “Seeds of Time,” water has not just inundated individual structures but seems to have drowned the whole world.
By Chris Wiley
Television
On Television
Jake Gyllenhaal, and His Eyebrows, on Trial in “Presumed Innocent”
Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott Turow novel.
By Vinson Cunningham
On Television
Kendrick Lamar’s Freedom Summer
In his new video for “Not Like Us,” the hip-hop artist claims victory in his long battle with Drake.
By Vinson Cunningham
On Television
“Clipped,” Reviewed: A Romp Back Through an N.B.A. Racism Scandal
The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race.
By Hanif Abdurraqib
On Television
“The Bear” Is Overstuffed and Undercooked
The Hulu series about a Chicago sandwich joint once felt like the best kind of prestige TV—but the new season, like its Michelin-hungry protagonist, has lost sight of what made it great.
By Inkoo Kang
The Theatre
The Theatre
Politics and “The Real” at the Festival d’Avignon
A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.
By Helen Shaw
The Theatre
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” Lands on Its Feet
The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.
By Helen Shaw
The Theatre
Sandra Oh and a Cast of Downtown All-Stars Illuminate a Period Thriller
The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” exorcises the jury-room drama.
By Helen Shaw
The Theatre
Great Migrations, in Two Plays
Samm-Art Williams’s “Home,” on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi’s “What Became of Us,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.
By Vinson Cunningham
Music
Musical Events
An Opera About John Singer Sargent and a Male Model
Damien Geter’s “American Apollo,” at Des Moines Metro Opera, along with revivals of Debussy and Strauss.
By Alex Ross
Persons of Interest
Mdou Moctar’s Guitar-Bending Cry for Justice
How the Tuareg band merges political anguish and musical transcendence.
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Pop Music
Clairo Believes in Charm as an Aesthetic and Spiritual Principle
The artist discusses her new album, moving upstate, and the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.
By Amanda Petrusich
Pop Music
Ivan Cornejo’s Mexican American Heartache
“Regional Mexican” music is booming, but one young singer is in no mood to celebrate.
By Kelefa Sanneh
More in Culture
Open Questions
What Don’t We Know?
We have a lot to learn from studying our ignorance.
By Joshua Rothman
In the Dark
Episode 3: Sounds Like Murder
We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha on the day of the killings.
With Madeleine Baran
In the Dark
Episode 2: I Have Questions
A trip to a Marine Corps archive reveals a clue about something that the U.S. military is keeping secret.
With Madeleine Baran
In the Dark
Episode 1: The Green Grass
A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed?
With Madeleine Baran
Cover Story
Gayle Kabaker’s “Beach Walk”
The artist captures a sweet moment shared by her daughter and granddaughter.
By Françoise MoulyArt by Gayle Kabaker
Culture Desk
Stop Stuffing the Kids Silly
But our parents have made up their minds—the grandchildren must be fed.
By Angie Wang
Culture Desk
Céline Dion Goes On
Viewers of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” know just how hard-won the pop superstar’s rumored comeback at the Olympics would be.
By Lauren Collins
Goings On
Broadway’s Sorbet: Sutton Foster in “Once Upon a Mattress”
Also: Missy Elliott’s first solo headlining tour, a Claire Denis masterwork, Diamond Stingily’s evolving art, and more.
Video Dept.
A New Yorker Article Comes to Life in “Killer Lies”
A docuseries co-created by National Geographic and The New Yorker Studios adapts Lauren Collins’s profile of Stéphane Bourgoin, a French expert on serial killers.
By The New Yorker