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.

NO LIMITS

What Kevin McCarthy will do to gain power.

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.

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.

Anti-Woke, Inc.

Will skewering corporate do-gooders and civil-rights activists make Vivek Ramaswamy a right-wing star?

THE NUMBERS GAME

Mystic quests and mathematicians in Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels.

THE OTHER PARTY

My daughter walked into the house with a boy named Brendan. She came into the kitchen limping a little, her mascara smeared, and lay down on the floor in front of the stove.

ON TELEVISION :NAKED AMBITION

\"Welcome to Chippendales,\" on Hulu.

THE THEATRE :OUT OF THE DARKNESS

“Your Own Personal Exegesis” and “Ohio State Murders.”

THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

How the quantum computer will change the world—eventually.

THE KING AND I

Remembering the late, great film director Jean-Luc Godard.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Before last month’s midterm election, progressives—and centrists, and socialists, and anyone, really, who thought that it was a bad idea to put election deniers in charge of state elections—braced for a red wave.

Talk Therapy

Sarah Polley, a former child star, has made a searingly frank film about sexual assault.

Consuming Passions

“The Fabelmans” and “Bones and All.”

Goings on About Town

In 1949, the writer Adrienne Kennedy, now ninety-one, enrolled at Ohio State University, where she became enamored with “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” but, as one of only a few Black female students, was stung by racism within the institution. She revisited this time in her 1992 one-act “Ohio State Murders.” The play’s Broadway première is now in previews, starring the theatrical luminary Audra McDonald (above). Kenny Leon’s production marks Kennedy’s Broadway début, and the first show at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.

A Dangerous Game

China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it?

ROYAL DESCENT

Season 5 of The Crown,” on Netflix.

ALL FOR ONE

Quiara Alegria Hudes reinvents her memoir in My Broken Language.

THE SHOCK OF THE OLD

Kristian Bezuidenhout releases the subtle power of the fortepiano.

DEADWOOD

An American’s brutal apprenticeship in the delicate art of bonsai.

THE PRICE OF POWER

For decades, J. Edgar Hoover was the man America trusted.

HINGES GRAHAM SWIFT

One morning in April, their father, Ted Holroyd, suddenly died and a few days afterward Annie and her older brother, Ian, both still a little dazed, went to see the minister who, as Annie put it, was going to do” their father’s funeral.