Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Thursday morning, I happened to be rereading Pauline Kael’s classic 1969 essay “Trash, Art, and the Movies.” A few hours later, I learned that David Lynch had died, and a sentence…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In a recent episode of “Silo,” the sci-fi series from Apple TV+, a character who does not have long to live puts on a virtual-reality headset. She’s spent her entire life…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Marina HarssHarss has written about dance for Goings On since 2004. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Recently, just before lunch with the Scottish author Ali Smith, at Moro, a beloved North African and Mediterranean place in London’s Exmouth Market, I locked myself out of my new phone.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined Facebook.” Social media had grown…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in the past decade or two, dance-music d.j.s discovered a way of punctuating their sets with a prank. Just as the music was reaching a crescendo, it would…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the faux aristocracy that is Hollywood, a Blake Lively should not have reason to meaningfully cross paths with a Justin Baldoni. Lively, best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Biographies of great artists are of inherent interest, but in the case of Terrence Malick, one of the greatest living filmmakers, there’s an extra fascination because of the great question mark…
Brady Corbet’s Brutalist threatens to crush its audience. Credit: Andriy Baidak/Shutterstock The architectural term “Brutalism” is often subject to a false etymology. Most people think it refers to the force exerted by some of the more muscular Brutalist buildings, but…
The LA fires bring to mind the less rarefied side of the stars. (By Maks Ershov/Shutterstock) I have never set foot in California, but as I watched the awful, authentically apocalyptic images this week of Los Angeles overtaken by fire…