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Goings On

Vivian Maier’s Treasure Trove of Photographs Uncovered

Also: the Irish dancemaker Oona Doherty, the howling art of Käthe Kollwitz, Machinedrum’s Joshua Tree album, and more.
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What We’re Reading

Under Review

A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.
Under Review

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Under Review

The Texas School District That Provided the Blueprint for an Attack on Public Education

When conservative activists began waging battle against diversity plans, some had a much bigger target in mind.
Under Review

The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis

A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?
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What We’re Eating

The Food Scene

Ambitious, Modern Lebanese Cooking at Sawa

A new restaurant in Park Slope offers Levantine dishes fit for a special occasion.
On and Off the Menu

The Decades-Long Romance of Las Vegas and Hawaii

The city is home to a great number of transplants from the islands—and to dozens of restaurants serving plate lunches and poke.
The Food Scene

The Casual Confidence of Lola’s

An alumna of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group offers a Southern-inflected menu that subtly sings.
The Food Scene

The Glittering Pleasure of a Perfect Raw Bar

Penny, in the East Village, has a polished, understated swagger that somehow makes the oysters taste even better.

What We’re Watching

The Front Row

Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due?

A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career.
The Theatre

Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics

Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Icke’s “Player Kings,” Benedict Andrews’s “The Cherry Orchard,” and Ian Rickson’s “London Tide.”
The Theatre

The Chilling Truth Pictured in “Here There Are Blueberries”

Moisés Kaufman’s play dramatizes the discovery of a photo album of Nazis at leisure at Auschwitz, and the reckoning it provoked.
On Television

Jerrod Carmichael Finds the Outer Limits of Confessional Comedy

Through an uncanny hybrid of access journalism and fourth-wall breaking, the comedian created an HBO series that was impossible to look away from.

What We’re Listening To

Musical Events

The Fashionista Modernism of Yuja Wang

The star pianist uses her glamour to lead audiences out of their comfort zones.
Podcast Dept.

When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into Operatives

A new show about the Cold War, “Not All Propaganda Is Art,” reveals the dark, sometimes comic ironies of trying to control the world through culture.
Pop Music

The Anxious Love Songs of Billie Eilish

Much of the artist’s new album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” is about wanting a relationship but failing, in some fundamental way, to sustain closeness with another person.
Musical Events

Revisiting Composers Suppressed by the Nazis

The Musica Non Grata series, in Prague, explores the glittering, elusive world of Alexander Zemlinsky.

More Recommendations

Goings On

Little Island Goes Big

Also: Inkoo Kang’s streaming picks, of Montreal’s indie pop, a new Nanni Moretti film, and more.
Goings On

Richard Brody on Hong Sangsoo’s Stories of Artists in Crisis

Also, Kelela’s electronic R. & B., DanceAfrica at BAM, the New Group’s “All of Me,” and more.
The Food Scene

Blanca Is Not for Beginners

At the reopened restaurant behind Roberta’s, the Chile-born chef Victoria Blamey offers flavors that are strong, unexpected, and occasionally disorienting.
Goings On

Summer Culture Preview

What’s happening this season in art, theatre, music, dance, and movies.
Goings On

Hilton Als on the Sui-Generis Films of Charles Atlas

Also: “Uncle Vanya” and “Staff Meal” reviewed, superstar pianists at Carnegie Hall, and more.
Goings On

Teresita Fernández’s Shifting Sculptural Landscapes

Also: Kamasi Washington, “The Outsiders” reviewed, Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, and more.
The Food Scene

The Return, Again, of the Power Lunch

Four Twenty Five, a luxe new dining room from the mega-restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, takes square aim at the expense-account crowd.
Goings On

It’s Taylor Swift Day, Again

Upon the release of “The Tortured Poets Department,” an appraisal, and a Pick Three.