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“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
It may be bright and getting brighter on Broadway these days, but Off Broadway the shadows are lengthening. Desperation-level real-estate pressures are pushing established theatre companies out of spaces...
Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and a professor at Harvard Law School. She won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello,”...
How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music
Three-quarters of the way through Richard Linklater’s 1990 film “Slacker,” an accomplice to a botched robbery strolls past a concrete lot covered in AstroTurf, on top of which a...
How Elon Musk Rebranded Trump
By the end of Donald Trump’s campaign for a second Presidency, he was part of a package deal. The Trump ticket represented not only Trump and his running mate,...
“Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property Loss
“It was a piece of heaven,” Agnes Marshall Blackwell says about the house she grew up in, situated in Morganza, Maryland. She recalls a little white house, surrounded by...
Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box.Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,”...
A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio
Like those iconic works, “New Paris” conjures a small society all its own. It is a world of mothers, sisters, grandfathers, cousins, and neighbors looking at us, away from...
“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it. The two genres converge to startling effect...
A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
E pluribus unum might be the proper political aspiration for a large and multifarious country, but when it comes to the novel people tend to applaud something closer to...
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast.Genres tend to...
