Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was your experience with her? I loved her. We got on…
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How French Should a Restaurant Be?
The onslaught of intensity works, thanks to choices the restaurant makes in portioning (not overlarge) and service (not over-rushed), which gives the palate a bit of time to regroup…
The Making of “Adaptation”
I didn’t keep close track of what was going on with “Adaptation,” because I was busy with my own work and, frankly, I didn’t expect much to come of it besides the usual Hollywood noise. I…
Rose Byrne Hits the Motherlode
Her comedic pivot would have to wait, though. After a stint living in London, she moved to New York to co-star with Glenn Close in “Damages,” the FX legal drama, which débuted in 2007 and…
László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality
In 2011, I wrote that reading László Krasznahorkai “is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their hands at a fire, only to…
The Safe Space of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”
Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” certainly encourages that impression. It’s perhaps her…
The Virtuosic Maternal Freakout of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” a nerve-shredding dark comedy from the director and screenwriter Mary Bronstein, is the latest and surely most exhaustive iteration of an idea that has gained…
Kate DiCamillo on the Solace of Fairy Tales
When the children’s author Kate DiCamillo was a girl, she would listen over and over to a record of the Brothers Grimm story “The Juniper Tree”—in which, among other terrors, a child is…
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society.” Lower than…
Season 2 Update: Five Years Later
After nearly twenty-three years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’s reporting. Now he’s back in Winona, Mississippi, where his saga began. What brought him…
NBA YoungBoy Stands Alone
Few musical events in recent memory have promised more mayhem than this one: the first major headlining tour by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper of uncommon power and dexterity who is…
A Season of Rage at the Philharmonic and the Met
John Corigliano’s First Symphony, which Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic presented early in the new season, begins with a blistering wail of orchestral rage. Strings play a…
Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities
Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence. Source link
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
Plus he’s hot. He’s a hot Catholic priest who, in my mind, I was picturing Joe Alwyn the whole time. I want to see the portraits Wyeth makes of him. Ugh, I bet they’re beautiful. The book…
The Old-School Spanish Restaurant Gets the Respect It Deserves
Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years. El Faro, among the oldest of the crew, opened in 1927…
The Original Brooklyn Selfie King
He’s a good-looking young man, slouching on a bed in his Brooklyn apartment, taking a selfie. Oh, has he pulled out all the stops. He has mounted an old-fashioned plate camera atop a…
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen The celebrity memoir is a form of which I’m reflexively skeptical. Some books lean solely on name recognition, without…
Man Ray’s Deadpan Wit on Display at the Met
“When Objects Dream,” the sensational Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Feb. 1), is centered on the artist’s refined experiments with the cameraless images he called…
What to See in the 2025 New York Film Festival’s Second Week
When I’m looking at what’s on offer in the Revivals section of the New York Film Festival—and, for that matter, whenever I see a noteworthy retrospective coming to one of the city’s…
Exploring the Intricacies of Memory with Ada Limón
The poet Ada Limón—whose latest collection, “Startlement,” went on sale this week—recently bought and moved back into her childhood home, where she lived from the time she was an infant…
Trump Has Seen the Enemy
And it is U.S. Source link
R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Free Play”
For the cover of the October 6, 2025, issue, the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson portrayed one of the simple pleasures afforded to new parents besieged by the pressures of a relentless…
A Chicken-Finger Joint from the Masterminds Behind Thai Diner
Mommy Pai’s, the latest venture from the masterminds behind Thai Diner and the late Uncle Boons, seems to follow this road map—on paper, at least. Open since August, just around the corner…