Category Culture

Food Review: The Best Restaurant Dishes of 2024

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. Those of us in the admittedly absurd position…

Loving to Lose

There is nothing like the exquisite pains of Browns fandom. Credit: Jeff Thrower/Shutterstock As a sincere but not vociferous fan of the Cleveland Browns, I have become accustomed to losing records, coaching carousels, quarterback changes, and a litany of high…

“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which she appeared to promote Tesla’s new A.I. robot, Optimus.…

The Best Theatre of 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit companies continued…

The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah…

The Afterimage of Arlene Croce

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlene Croce, who wrote the Dancing column in The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on December 16th, at the age of ninety. She was a towering figure, a critic…

Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s…