This weekend, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, will host the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, the first and only festival dedicated exclusively to American-primitive guitar music. Takoma Park, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is also the home town of Read More …
In 2011, the poet Donald Hall—who passed away at his home in rural New Hampshire, on Saturday, at age eighty-nine—received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, the highest award granted to an artist by the American government. For Read More …
“Can you stand back a little?” That’s what the photographer Larry Fink remembers Jerry Brown, the governor of California, asking him on a Monday in December. Fink was at the capitol building in Sacramento to photograph Brown for Connie Bruck’s Read More …
Many of the best films that rumble into town with theatrical releases have previously tiptoed in, in the form of isolated film-festival screenings. So it is with two major movies on screens now (“Zama” and “Jeannette”) as well as this Read More …
Though I often think about movies in relation to music, there’s also an aspect of music that’s similar to movies: drama. That aspect was in the forefront of an extraordinary piano recital by the Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Read More …
The man accused of Kim Wall’s torture, murder, and dismemberment always dreamed that his D.I.Y. mini submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, would attract global attention. Today, the vessel, covered in a green tarpaulin, in the unlovely industrial landscape of Nordhavn, at Read More …
The sporadically excellent conceptual art of “Who Is America?” (Showtime) originates in the impostures of Sacha Baron Cohen and extends to the show’s publicity campaign, which expands the stage of its satire and enriches its terms as both a pop Read More …
On a recent Tuesday night in SoHo, a group of eight women and two men donned white cotton gloves and gathered around a conference table on the lower level of the RealReal’s Wooster Street store. A line of Hermès Birkin Read More …
From The New Yorker’s beginnings, cartoons have been an integral part of the publication, and, from the beginning, women have been drawing them. The first New Yorker cartoon created by a woman, Ethel Plummer, appeared in the première issue, on Read More …
I walked to the mailbox and pulled out a sheaf of envelopes that included a letter from Philip Roth. I was twenty-nine and pregnant. I had written a book but assumed that no one would read it—and, anyway, I was Read More …