Category Culture

In June, France’s recently elected Assemblée Nationale opened its new term with five hundred and seventy-seven legislators, among them two Kevins. They are Kévins, actually, with an acute accent, though in France the name is spelled in several variations, including…

The new releases of previously unissued recordings by the pianist Ahmad Jamal and his trio, from 1963 through 1966, “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse,” is among the jazz events of the year. (The two double albums are out…

Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of the Emmy-winning ABC hit “Abbott Elementary,” has said in interviews that she always intended for it to be a family-friendly network show. She wanted “Abbott,” a comedy about teachers in an underfunded, predominately…

De Los Angeles, her mother, and her grandmother—three different generations of a family—represent a triptych of constructive conflict, reflection, and care that are necessary for healing. “What happens to brown girls who never learn how to love themselves brown?” The…

The photographer Nan Goldin, remembering her friend and portrait subject Greer Lankton, wrote that Lankton “created magical kingdoms.” Lankton, who died in 1996, at the age of thirty-eight, was a trans artist who was part of New York City’s East…

For many young people getting a higher education in Europe is a dream come true. And all because a European diploma is prestigious and opens up great prospects for future life. All educational institutions in Europe have their own history…

A few years ago, in the commercial afterglow of a wave of successful books on hygge, defined as the “quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality,” English-language publishers released several books touting the benefits of the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku—or forest…

Nominations for the ninety-fifth Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, and included five nods for films released by The New Yorker. Among the magazine’s nominees are a pair of documentary shorts, along with a trio of…

Antonin Niclass and Vladimir Krasilnikov observed people at a London station to create the paper-doll-like cast of “Do Not Feed the Pigeons.” The director Antonin Niclass has always been drawn to portraying loneliness and ugliness—which is why his latest muse…

A few weeks ago, a YouTube video of a 1967 performance of the catchy tune “Georgy Girl” popped up on my computer screen. Remembering the song from my childhood—and only the song, not the group singing it, since I was…