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The Gilded Age Never Ended
Today’s plutocrat, on the other hand, sees the cultural élite as part of the burdensome past. One prophetic peculiarity of Donald Trump’s…
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Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!”
For the March 3, 2025, cover, Barry Blitt depicts Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison ejected from their offices—a…
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Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots
Lee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program; as befits…
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The Rise of the Passive Spectator
The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was with our…
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“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane Bua Bua writes about classical music for Goings On. Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman…
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The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul
In the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan was snappy:…
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The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes
Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as…
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The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions”
Whatever’s new to me is new. If you’d asked me recently whether Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Breakfast of Champions,” from 1973, had been…
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“The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire
For Bernie Krause, the sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. The musician and Hollywood sound engineer is a pioneer of…
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An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights
Argentina was already a leader in gender-equality legislation—it was the first nation in Latin America to pass same-sex-marriage laws, and…
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Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones
The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a…
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A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work…
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Kendrick Lamar and the Messy Art of Meta-Performance
A sense of abasement hovers over the performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there. The musician selected must…
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The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
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The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or…
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The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to…
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The Art of Film Criticism
“Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled.…
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The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Not every filmmaker is a cinephile, but, among those who are, that passion can manifest itself in unexpected ways. The driving pleasure of…
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Lost and Found: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
“Nothing New” was written in 1918, not long before “Dust of Snow,” which was first published in an English magazine, in 1920, under a…
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A Visit to Madam Bedi: A Personal History by Tara Westover
My friend Sukrit invited me to India. His mother lived in Delhi. He said I should get out of England and give my eyes something new to…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Land Power, by Michael Albertus (Basic). In the past few centuries, land has changed hands on major scales: from nobles to commoners…
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Lundy’s and the Risks of Restaurant Revivals
I’m not sure if the same can be said of the new Lundy’s, whose home is an odd little corner building, inset in a gated lot where the…
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My Life with Left-Handed Women
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared:…
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Why Was a Climate Activist Put in Prison for Five Years?
The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. If you…