Category Culture

When we begin “The U.S. and the Holocaust”—a six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about America’s actions during one of history’s greatest atrocities, the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jews—we find ourselves in 1933 Frankfurt, where a bourgeois German-Jewish family is going out…

In recent years, on Instagram and in fashion magazines, a girl-centric aesthetic has taken hold. Young photographers such as Petra Collins, Olivia Bee, and Mayan Toledano have been capturing the private rites and practices of adolescents—in school, at parties, on…

The Coney Island boardwalk is best known as a summer place, a spot for sunshine, swimming, or amusement-park rides. In his cover for the December 5, 2022, issue, Jorge Colombo captures the place in a different moment and mood, with…

Eustace Tilley, a monocled dandy, first appeared on the cover of The New Yorker’s inaugural issue, in 1925. He appeared on the cover for a second time one year later, in celebration that the magazine had survived. (It almost didn’t.)…

Jamie Lee Curtis is Hollywood royalty: her parents were Janet Leigh, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” and Tony Curtis, the matinée idol from “Sweet Smell of Success.” She belongs to a specific class of actors who use their easy…

“I was trying to show this feeling of invisibility that these individuals experience in our society,” Camarotti, who himself immigrated to Canada, told me. Jorge Camarotti’s “Ousmane” is a quiet film full of big emotions. Its title character, played with…

Of all the pop-culture phenomena that I have managed to miss out on in my life—and there have been many—no lapse might be greater than having never watched a single episode of “Seinfeld.” In the final decade of the twentieth…