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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the end of “Anna Karenina,” Konstantin Levin, the less famous of the novel’s two main protagonists, muses on his isolation amid a loving family. Unlike Anna, he has a happy…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I learned, a few days ago, that the Kips Bay AMC didn’t have any real human beings working at its ticket counter,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The third season of the HBO financial drama “Industry” opens on a luxury yacht, off the coast of one of those places where the very wealthy like to spend their summers:…

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. I knew I was going to be in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the October 7, 2024, issue, in which the editors endorse Kamala Harris for President, the artist Malika Favre portrays the Democratic candidate. “As soon as Harris—an empowered…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, at the age of eighty-nine, was one of a generation of female British actors who carved out a long career on the stage, in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the British comedian Rosie Holt heard that Rishi Sunak, then the Prime Minister and head of the Conservative Party, would be holding a snap election in July, earlier than many…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2001, a friend of mine, the artist Daesha Devón Harris, attended the opening of a Renée Cox exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery, in New York. At the time, Harris…

Nothing focuses the mind so well as a bare concrete wall. Credit: image via Shutterstock A few years ago, I attended a lecture in which a learned professor complained that American universities are obsessed with ugly buildings. To illustrate his…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This year’s Oscar season is shaping up like this year’s baseball season: both feature an unusually wide-open and competitive field. The New York Film Festival, which runs Sept. 27 to Oct.…