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Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”
Last year, the Paris-based artist Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet did a residency at Villa Albertine, which gave him the opportunity to experience the bustling energy of the Big Apple. For the...
At the New Babbo, It’s Batali Minus Batali
On my first visit to the original Babbo—God, it must have been twenty years ago—I remember being stunned at my first bite of the beef-cheek ravioli. (“Of all the...
At the New Babbo, It’s Batali Minus Batali
On my first visit to the original Babbo—God, it must have been twenty years ago—I remember being stunned at my first bite of the beef-cheek ravioli. (“Of all the...
Sarah Sherman Is Grosser Than You Think
Once Sherman began her set, though, storming onstage with her middle fingers raised and immediately insulting the audience (“Shut up! Fuck you!”), I realized that I was in for...
“The Beast in Me” Is at War with Itself
Aggie Wiggs, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, is living in a home that is far too big for her in Oyster Bay, a wealthy enclave on Long Island. The...
How “The New Yorker at 100” Got to Netflix
COBB: Well, I’ll ask you the question that I use when I conclude any interview with any subject, which is: Is there anything that we haven’t talked about that...
The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private authority—and confrontationally so, with a sense of danger and...
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank
A few years ago, Andrew Fox was struck by a transcendently bad idea. He would turn the story of Anne Frank into a satirical hip-hop musical: intersectional, inclusive, and...
Samuel Beckett on the Couch
Bion, who was born in 1897, in Muttra, India, to a European father and an Anglo-Indian mother, moved to England for boarding school at age eight. After fighting for...
“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world. Source link