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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.
S&P Lunch 174 Fifth Ave.
TABLES FOR TWO
LYRICS FROM TAYLOR SWIFT'S FUTURE MIDNIGHTS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
MEMORY SERVES
How Annie Ernaux turns the past into art.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the prospects of Trumpism; fashion tips from the G.O.P.; offstage with Interpol; Nan Goldin has the power; turkey any way you want it.
A Critic at Large the Never-Ending Story
Can the multiverse keep expanding forever?
Suzuki Method – No Strings Attached
What the Suzuki method really taught.
Everything Nice
The boundless optimism of the Spice Girls.
A Reporter at Large End of the Road
In Americas bike-racing community, a murder exposes a lot of dirt.
LCD Soundsystem, Orchestral B.I.G.
Barring an intrusion from you-know what, the imminent cold-weather concert season should recover much of its pre-pandemic fastball, as musicians fan out across stages big and small