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DEEP CUTS
Franz Kafka’ diaries reveal a writer who was antic as well as agonized.
HAMMER ATTACK
Three Virgin Marys kept their baleful eyes on the back of Allen’s head. But more powers were needed—of clemency, of healing—so, to accompany the dolorous mothers, somebody had also taped to the wall behind Allen’s hospital bed half a dozen Jesuses (a few were laminated), the famous “Last Supper” painting, and a grave-looking figure who, Alice, one of Allen’s sisters, told Gina, was St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, of last hope.
U.S. JOURNAL: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
UPS offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs, so why is a strike looming?
PROFILES: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
The executive leading Netflixs quest for worldwide domination.
ANNALS OF INQUIRY: THOUGHT PROCESS
What really goes on between our ears?
THE INFINITE-MONKEY THEOREM: FIELD NOTES
SHOUTS MURMURS
LETTER FROM ITALY: THE MISSING
Many migrants disappear on their way to Europe. Most are never identified.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huffdetails common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Public’s Under the Radar, now in its eighteenth installment, is a lively showcase of experimental performance. Last year’s edition was scuttled by the Omicron surge, but the festival returns, through Jan. 22, with work contemplating desire, loss, queerness, chain restaurants, and King Leopold II. Among the offerings: LatinXoxo,” by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo above), who uses Spanish boleros, comedy, and pop songs to subvert Latin-lover tropes and his own father’s machismo.
Onward and Upward With the Arts - Game Theory
Can a critically acclaimed video game be turned into a hit HBO series?
A reporter at large – Trapped in the Trenches
On Ukraine's battle fil, drone surveillance ae it almost ete sible to maneuver.
The Painter and His Court
Kehinde Wiley has gone from depicting power to building it.
Returns – Annie Ernaux
The last time I saw my mother at her home, it was July, a Sunday. I travelled there by train. At Motteville, we sat in the station for a long time. It was hot. It was quiet, both in the compartment and outside.
TOP OF THE HEAP
“Babylon” and Corsage.”
DOLOROUS HAZE
“Fleishman Is in Trouble,” on FX on Hulu.
DOWN THE HATCH
Alcohol-fuelled catharsis in Des Moines” and Between Riverside and Crazy.”
LIVE, FROM NEW YORK
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres's portraits of the South Bronx.
NOTIONS OF THE SACRED
AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ
UNEASY RIDER
When you want some extra oomph on two wheels.
PUNISHMENT
And so the Lord created two huAmass in His image, called Adam and Eve. And He put them in the Garden of Eden and provided them with everything that they could want.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The New Yorker
TABLES FOR TWO
Markus Glocker, the chef and co-owner of Koloman a new French-Viennese restaurant in the former Breslin space, adjoining the Ace Hotel in NoMad-has a clarity of vision that springs from the philosophy of the turn-of-the-century artist Koloman Moser.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
After skipping two years, for obvious reasons, a beloved holiday tradition is back in the streets of East Harlem-El Museo del Barrio's Three Kings Day Parade and Celebration, which is now in its fortysixth year. Some revellers show up dressed as the wise men, but there are other Biblical trios: look for fresh faces self-styled as la Sagrada Família (pictured above, in 2020). Everyone is welcome to join the hour-long procession, which begins at 11 A.M., on Jan. 6, but registration, via elmuseo.org, is required.
A Reporter at Large: Second Nature
How rewilders in India are working to reverse environmental destruction.
THE LOWER DEPTHS
“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Living.”
STICK FIGURES
The divergent conducting careers of Klaus Mäkelä and Xian Zhang.
NEW AGAIN
“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Some Like It Hot.”
FAMILY ALBUM
Robin Coste Lewis travels to the past in her second book.
FLESH WOUND
Norman Mailer went to war and wrote a big novel about it. Did he ever really come back?
ENVISIONING EXTINCTION
Tragicomic creatures of a terrifying future.