Culture

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. The first thing you see when you walk…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jackson Arn The New Yorker’s art critic 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…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Several months after the writer Lucy Jones gave birth to her third child, she purchased a compound microscope, swabbed her underarm, and set out to grow her own bacteria. This might…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The current Internet landscape sometimes feels like the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”: directionless, inexplicable, bound to change in confusing ways. Our social-media feeds don’t offer much except the forward…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Things that scare me in the kitchen: mandolines, lighting a gas hob with a matchstick, onions, chicken-washing discourse, people who want to help, cooking with or without a timer, post-lasagna washing…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2012, the Egyptian photographer Rehab Eldalil began photographing the Bedouin Jebeleya tribe, whose ancestors have lived in the foothills of Mt. Sinai, in Egypt, for more than a thousand years.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When spring melts away and the heat rises, many wise New Yorkers rush to find an open space. For the cover of the June 3, 2024, issue, Sergio García Sánchez depicts…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The seventy-seventh annual Cannes Film Festival came to a startling and joyous conclusion on Saturday night, when the competition jury, chaired by Greta Gerwig, awarded the Palme d’Or, the festival’s highest…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi’s three-decade career—which began with a bit part on “Miami Vice”—encompasses three distinct eras of Hollywood. There was the pre-9/11 era, when precious few roles were…

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. Suzanne Cupps, the chef-owner of a new restaurant…