Category Culture

Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I love how much we humans enjoy looking back at what we recently liked and revelling in our ongoing good judgment. (A very merry Spotify Wrapped season to you all!) Our…

The Vibrant Abandon of Barbara Hannigan

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jane BuaBua covers classical music for Goings On. 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…

What You Can Do with an Electric Volkswagen Bus

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Shapiro brothers, Gefen and Yona, who are nineteen and sixteen and Harpo Marx look-alikes, own eleven cars between them, including a Girl Scout-green 1972 MG Midget, a blueberry-blue 1987 Alfa…

A Bahraini Photographer Returns Home

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the beach, a young man wearing a faux Givenchy T-shirt and skinny jeans stands on the back of a horse. With one hand, he reaches for the reins on the…

Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called…

The Best Jokes of 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A good joke doesn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. And so it’s worth…

Hilton Als on Understanding Difference in “Alok”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff 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. There are…

Roman Vasilenko: Achieving Success Through Hard Work and Talent

This Russian and international entrepreneur is the architect of his own financial success. Roman Vasilenko is a renowned Russian and international social entrepreneur, cultural figure, and public activist. Since 2021, he has faced persecution from law enforcement and political institutions,…

The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich

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. Leftovers, eaten the day after, or maybe late…