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Since the publication of his 2000 true-crime book, The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère has established himself as France’s... Read More

I wasn’t going to watch it. I was going to sit this one out. But I’m a big fan of Broad City, so I did it. I clicked... Read More

Before Florida became a national punchline, Miami Herald humor columnist Dave Barry was already down south lovingly... Read More

It is the streaming series Yellowstone where America sees its reflection, the struggle between good and evil. Sheridan expects... Read More

The controversy over Netflix’s new four-part documentary Queen Cleopatra has been portrayed as a backlash to diversity in... Read More

"Drop me down anywhere in America and I’ll tell you where I am: in America.” Perhaps you need to be a slight stranger to this... Read More

One of the greatest living filmmakers now lives in an assisted living facility in midtown Manhattan. He squints at me from across our table... Read More

For more than 70 years, I lived under the same head of state: not a despot, of the kind who clings to power for fear of ending up like... Read More

Assume, for the purposes of this exercise, that you are piloting a small craft, no more than 30 feet in length, and you motor out of the... Read More

The first shot of the Rust Belt in Slap Shot (1977) surveys a local steel mill which is shutting down and throwing ten thousand... Read More

When Annie Ernaux opens the front door to me at her home in Cergy, 40 minutes outside Paris, she immediately bursts out laughing.... Read More

Late in the action of Martin Scorsese’s enthralling account of the methodical elimination of Native Americans in early-1920s... Read More

Do you remember the homosexual? It’s been a while, hasn’t it? He was, for a period, a key figure in the conversation about gay... Read More

Our culture’s obsession with the appearance of women is nothing new. Many societies have long fixated on the female face and figure as... Read More

I first discovered opera in 1991, when my tenth-grade English teacher killed a couple of class periods by showing the movie Amadeus. The... Read More

This British Museum exhibition is about ancient luxury, but its content shows a commendable frugality. Almost all of what is on show... Read More

Rick Dalton, the fictional star of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” has died at the age of 90.... Read More

Were it not for heritage — for the accounts our mothers and fathers and their mothers and fathers have handed down to us like an oral... Read More

Heather Armstrong didn’t mean to become a “mommy blogger”. In 1997, she taught herself to code, and began working at a Los... Read More

Most of what people think they know about J. Edgar Hoover is nonsense, typically associated with his wearing a dress, high heels, and a... Read More

For decades now, opera directors in Europe and the United States have felt licensed to revise operas to conform to their political agendas.... Read More

While many of us, stateside, squandered the salad days of our pandemic bingeing Tiger King or revisiting The Sopranos and Girls, Ian Penman... Read More

It may be hard to picture now, when American children spend seemingly every waking hour absorbed in Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, but once... Read More

I was thinking that Emma Cline’s writing reminded me of Cat Power’s cover of “Satisfaction,” where she removed the... Read More

David Grann’s latest nonfiction epic, The Wager, follows a heaving imperial British warship of the same name as it sets out in 1740 on... Read More

Readers of fiction often ask to be transported. To be “moved” is the great passive verb of experiencing art: we are absorbed, we... Read More

Complaints about The Man were a common theme in film and television through the 70s, 80s, and 90s. As with so many parts of pop... Read More

It turned out that this year’s most coveted—and impossible to attain—ticket was not for the new Indiana Jones sequel or the... Read More

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Andy Warhol was not entitled to draw on a prominent photographer’s portrait of... Read More

From the ads I saw, Jury Duty looked like the last TV show I’d want to add to my watchlist. “12 jurors. 11... Read More

In 2005, the journal Obesity Research published a study that, had we but known it, told us everything we needed to know about our... Read More

Travelers to Unimaginable Lands is that rarity: true biblio-therapy. Lucid, mature, wise, with hardly a wasted word, it not only deepens... Read More

We have had reason of late to think anew about the Soviet Union and the legacy of the Cold War—the fighting in Ukraine reverberates... Read More

Louis XIV of France — the longest reigning monarch the world has ever known (born in 1638, he reigned from 1643 until his death in... Read More