Though Ivanka Trump has shuttered her fashion line, others among her father’s political advisers and erstwhile associates remain immersed in sartorial concerns. Urgent questions include: What should you wear to stand trial for conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to Read More …

I’m perplexed by the business plan of the Jammer Group, the fictional nineteen-eighties financial firm embodying capitalist venality on “Black Monday” (Showtime). Though the Wall Street Journal hails it as the No. 11 trading firm in town, other characters deride Read More …

When he was a young man, the English video-game designer Peter Molyneux programmed a pixel to slide across the screen of his Acorn Atom computer. He described the thrill as being “as close to sexual satisfaction as you could possibly Read More …

Mariah Carey’s voice is a familiar presence around the holidays: “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” a song that she wrote with Walter Afanasieff, in 1994, is one of the best-selling singles of all time. And just last week, Read More …

The French chef Joël Robuchon, who died on Monday, at the too-young age of seventy-three, may have been that tricky thing: a hinge figure in history. His style as a cook and restaurateur—though it eventually came into contact with the Read More …

For a decade, I’d vaguely intended to make my own yogurt. All that I needed was a heat-proof flask, an airing cupboard, and will power. At some point, I told my sister of my secret ambition. On my next birthday, Read More …

The title sequence of “Vanity Fair” (Amazon) rears up to the inexplicable accompaniment of a sultry cover version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” The camera appraises a carrousel’s grimacing horses. Striding toward them is a figure in a Read More …

At the back of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, is a café called Tito. Inside, a bronze bust of the man himself, Josip Broz Tito, presides over a red room bedecked with Second World War-era military Read More …

Mort Gerberg, a star pitcher of The New Yorker’s softball team and a contributor to the magazine since 1965, is the subject of a New-York Historical Society retrospective, “Mort Gerberg Cartoons: A New Yorker’s Perspective,” which opened this month. In Read More …

That’s odd, I thought, during the early going of Ali Abbasi’s new film, “Border.” I wonder why it’s in Swedish. I’d gone to Manhattan’s IFC Center this past weekend intending to see a different film, “Roma,” arriving with what I’d Read More …