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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The bio-pic is a genre of extremes. The best ones share a uniquely powerful artistic authority, but merely ordinary ones are truly disheartening. The trouble isn’t only that of inflated prestige;…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I can’t believe the people are pouring in!” Ann Goldstein, the former head of the copy department for this publication, said as she and her sister Martha Slaughter, who lives in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story People-watching can be a welcome distraction while trekking around the city on public transportation. For the cover of the March 25, 2024, Style Issue, his first for the magazine, Klaas Verplancke…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “The Book of Love,” a début novel from the short-story writer Kelly Link, three teen-agers find themselves in their music teacher’s classroom in the middle of the night. They are…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The other night at Café Carmellini, Andrew Carmellini’s…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. If you…

In her new book Hannah’s Children, economist Catherine Pakaluk says yes. We are no longer a nation that thinks much about posterity. Which is why the words of “Hannah,” the pseudonym for a Jewish mother of seven whose story animates…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s such a lovely photograph—if only it were real. The occasion is Mothering Sunday, the U.K. equivalent of Mother’s Day, which fell this year in March. Mom sits at the center,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Over a thirty-year career, Alan Cumming has been a stage star, a cabaret performer, a memorist, a night-club owner, and a political activist. Animating many of these endeavors are his talents…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Confessional pop music has become freighted over the years by a kind of heightened expectation. Fans see more of pop stars now, in the quasi-candid precincts of social media, which means…