André Aciman on Reading"and Misreading"Emotions
The "Call Me by Your Name" author on novels about people misunderstanding the situations in which they find themselves.
The "Call Me by Your Name" author on novels about people misunderstanding the situations in which they find themselves.
"The Sisters," "Necessary Fiction," "Make It Ours," and "Exophony."
The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age.
In Hulu's soapy "Washington Black," about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material.
Also: the nostalgia of Vacation sunscreen, the heartwrenching songs of Stevie Nicks, Tiler Peck's Jerome Robbins festival, and more.
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.
Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not.
The podcast host recommends three recent favorites"about the gentrification of punk, what makes a great actor, and the corrosive influence of social-media platforms.
The late songwriter's targets are mostly forgotten"so why do new generations keep discovering him?
Need a meaty, cloddish, yet affable Everyman who can act? Paul Walter Hauser knows how to own the body type.
Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt's documentary short follows a creative community held together by collaboration and the efforts of a woman who is part landlady, part fairy godmother.
Also: Superheroic sentimentality in "The Fantastic Four," the popular crowd goes down in "Heathers: The Musical," the arcane mythology of Lord Huron, and more.
Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
After years of progress in diversity, many companies' upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.
A Washington, D.C., improv theatre invited recently laid-off civil servants to a free workshop. The goals: stay adaptable, and maybe even laugh.
"Fear of the foreign and the fear of being foreign."
An unlikely YouTube star surveys the spoils of an overflowing but precarious industry.
From Hollywood to the Hasty Pudding, we waft like smoke from an unfiltered Pall Mall through Carson's worlds, most of which are gone.
Also: "The Gospel at Colonus" at Little Island, Golden Age celebrity photos at MOMA, Soledad Barrio's flamenco at the Joyce, and more.
"The Compound," "Never Flinch," "Theater Kid," and "The Invention of Design."
Readers respond to Vinson Cunningham's piece about the New York Post and Molly Fischer's review of Keith McNally's new memoir, "I Regret Almost Nothing."
Yesterday, the most important day of his life. Unless it was today.
In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" and Tolstoy's "War and Peace," finding a sense of purpose that transcended ordinary course…
The musician and "Portlandia" co-creator dissects an iconic rock-and-roll image: a 2003 photograph of Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, for a New Yorker profile.