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ANNALS OF INQUIRY: THOUGHT PROCESS
What really goes on between our ears?
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.
U.S. JOURNAL: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
UPS offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs, so why is a strike looming?
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.
THE THEATRE: LANDS OF THE LOST
London’ Orlando,” My Neighbour Totoro,” and The Burnt City.”
A Critic at Large – Blood Lines
Seventy-five years after Indian Partition, have we learned how to say what happened?
We Never Left the Titanic
Twenty-five years later, discourse around the film is as lively as ever.
A reporter at large – Trapped in the Trenches
On Ukraine's battle fil, drone surveillance ae it almost ete sible to maneuver.
The Unrelenting Roar of a Crypto Mine Tore This Town Apart
Cryptocurrency aims to revolutionize finance, but its mines are destroying communities across America.
NOTIONS OF THE SACRED
AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ
TOP OF THE HEAP
“Babylon” and Corsage.”
DOLOROUS HAZE
“Fleishman Is in Trouble,” on FX on Hulu.
LIVE, FROM NEW YORK
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres's portraits of the South Bronx.
DOWN THE HATCH
Alcohol-fuelled catharsis in Des Moines” and Between Riverside and Crazy.”
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.
UNEASY RIDER
When you want some extra oomph on two wheels.
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.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The New Yorker
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 Awkward Age
With its offbeat premise, stirring score, and superlative cast, Kimberly Akimbo is planting a flag for the wonderfully weird on Broadway.
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Thirty-nine years ago this month, an African American Navy bombardier-navigator named Robert Goodman was taking part in a mission to destroy Syrian munitions in Lebanon when his plane was shot down.
NEW AGAIN
“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Some Like It Hot.”
ENVISIONING EXTINCTION
Tragicomic creatures of a terrifying future.
FAMILY ALBUM
Robin Coste Lewis travels to the past in her second book.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The origami menagerie that graces the tree at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 8) includes beetles, butterflies, and grasshoppers, in both a nod to the past and a preview of coming attractions.
NO LIMITS
What Kevin McCarthy will do to gain power.