Culture

I wanted to write this review as soon as possible after seeing the movie, in order to preserve my favorable impressions and before making the logical queries that could risk dispelling them. I’d recommend not scrutinizing “Pinball: The Man Who…

My father died, of cancer, when he was fifty-two. He wasn’t, as far as I know, into sports or exercise of any kind. He was trim, about six feet. He smoked, he drank coffee, he combed his thick black hair…

The essence of the cinema is the symbol—the filming of action that stands for something else, that gets its identity from what’s offscreen. There’s plenty of action in Jordan Peele’s new film, “Nope,” and it’s imaginative and exciting if viewed purely…

Although summer is a good time to escape the city, not everyone gets a chance to do it. In her new cover, Nicole Rifkin shows how clever New Yorkers find shade—and a hint of nature—in the thick city heat. We…

Just in time for the holidays, The New Yorker Store is offering new items and discounted prices. Between Monday and Thursday, select products are on sale for twenty per cent off; on Black Friday, shoppers receive a thirty-per-cent discount sitewide.…

If you grew up on the lower rungs of the white middle class in the Rust Belt of the second half of the twentieth century, you knew a guy like Jeffrey Dahmer. He went to high school with your older…

In the late nineties, I had in my possession a copy of the photographer Nan Goldin’s monograph, “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” which was published in concordance with her 1996 Whitney Museum mid-career survey of the same name. I no longer…

Waiting in the queue, Stuart said, is both an act of respect and a test of endurance. “The English are the best queuers in the world,” the photographer Matt Stuart said, after several days shooting footage for his documentary, “Her…

The last thing I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle to Vintage Motorcycle Days. At 40, I have only a few years’ experience, and took my first motorcycle trip—a 500-mile jaunt—just last summer. On the way back from that…

The movie screen only looks flat. A director’s inner space opens it up and draws a viewer into its alternate worlds. Many movies aren’t endowed with any such extra dimension of subjectivity and are perfectly enjoyable, within limits. Sometimes those…