Style
Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)”
The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to complicate representations of race in portraiture....
Is Gossip Good for Us?
In August, 1918, Virginia Woolf spent a quiet stretch at Asheham, the country house that she and her husband, Leonard, rented in rural Sussex. “We’ve been practically alone, which...
Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero
Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect. Source link
“Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration
In the fall of 1965, a twenty-nine-year-old Georges Perec published his début novel. Short and strange, “Things: A Story of the Sixties” follows Sylvie and Jérôme, a young Parisian...
Collection Agencies: When to Call in the Pros
When clients stop paying their bills, it can be a real headache for any business. Knowing when to hire a collection agency can help you recover what’s owed without...
Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure
For almost fifteen minutes, we sit looking at a vertical screen on a seemingly empty stage. In the projection, the Australian actress Sarah Snook, in tight closeup, speaks the...
Saul Steinberg’s Masterful Language of Lines
Saul Steinberg, the Romanian American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, is as celebrated for his elegant line as he is for his razor-sharp wit. His 1945 début American...
La Tête d’Or and the Revenge of the American Steak House
By a long shot, the most exciting new steak house in New York right now is La Tête d’Or by Daniel, the latest restaurant from the indefatigable French chef...
Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines
At Spy, Carter had mocked Vanity Fair, which he had found breathy and incestuous. (“In Vanity Fair, it’s sometimes difficult to tell who is slurping whom,” Spy pronounced in...
The Unsettling Cheer of “The Baldwins”
Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young innocent Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles...
