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The Sleazy, Unsettling Sounds of Mk.gee
[ad_1] Earlier this summer, the singer and guitarist Mk.gee played two sold-out shows at the Stone Pony, a rock club just off the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The...
Next-Level Vietnamese at Bánh Anh Em
[ad_1] As always with great new restaurants these days, getting a table is a bit of an investment, though Bánh Anh Em takes the fundamentally democratic approach of allowing no...
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway
[ad_1] I have a recurring dream about my father and me, one of the few welcome dreams I have about him. We’re both in our late thirties, though he’s fitter...
The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.“I’m personally...
“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire
[ad_1] “Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are....
“Double Time for Pat Hobby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ad_1] This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here.“Double Time for Pat Hobby” was...
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
[ad_1] The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of...
Justin Bieber’s Messy, Improbable Masterpiece
[ad_1] In the course of Justin Bieber’s nearly twenty-year career, his music has come to be somewhat immaterial to his celebrity. For many, he is an almost Kardashian-like figure, whose...
A New Agnès Varda Exhibition Is an Extension of Her Life’s Work
[ad_1] When Varda shot portraits on location, her practice was both observational and interventionist. She took subjects around town in her car in search of suitably photogenic sites and then...
How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity
[ad_1] About those faraway realms: Can we really credit two white Victorians, and their peculiarly German fetish for classification, with the invention of homosexuality? Anticipating this question, the exhibition opens...
