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The Best TV Shows of 2025
[ad_1] Fourteen years ago, Emily Nussbaum, one of my esteemed predecessors in the TV-critic chair, notoriously titled her Top Ten list “I Hate Top Ten Lists.” I’ve seldom felt the...
A New Afghan Bakery, in New York’s Golden Age of Bread
[ad_1] As the city’s bakeries have grown increasingly culturally specific, representing far-flung cuisines and styles—see Librae, in the East Village, which deploys Danish techniques and Middle Eastern ingredients like za’atar...
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Is a Landmark in the History of Black Art
[ad_1] I had to wait for the next generation—my older sister—to break through that uncertainty and introduce me to the political, social, and aesthetic significance of Harlem. In my sister’s...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
[ad_1] As Sacks aged, he felt as if he were gazing at people from the outside. But he also noticed a new kind of affection for humans—“homo sap.” “They’re quite...
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”
[ad_1] 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...
Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre
[ad_1] Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the filmmaker-subject relationship in ways that recall classics of the form....
Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void
[ad_1] How did this book make its way to you?I was driving through New Mexico to the Telluride Film Festival, and that’s when Amblin [Steven Spielberg’s production company] called me...
Ideas Are Cheap—Execution Wins Every Time
[ad_1] I’ve built companies on a simple rule: action beats intention. Ideas don’t move the needle by themselves. Execution does. If something is worth doing, start now. That’s the opinion...
Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction
[ad_1] The Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction is known for its interest in the porosity of boundaries—between nations, between ethnicities, between fiction and reality, consciousness and dreams. As her...
A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life
[ad_1] The stark Greenlandic landscape is a persistent presence in Storch’s photos, and low, horizontal sunlight is everywhere. In one of Storch’s pictures, an old man on a wooden porch...
“The Beast in Me” Is at War with Itself
[ad_1] 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...
Designing Global Systems That Work: A Conversation With Stephanie Zabriskie
[ad_1] Stephanie Zabriskie is a global finance and development executive and nonprofit founder whose work spans luxury destination development, public-private partnerships, and Indigenous-led humanitarian systems. We sat down with her...