CATEGORIES

Consuming Passions

“The Fabelmans” and “Bones and All.”

Talk Therapy

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

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.

Hugh Jackman

The award-winning actor and star of The Son on birthday presents, the ocean, and his love for Bill Nighy

Inventing Ivana

Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York Cityand help define its "greed is good" era. From her heyday presiding over her husband's properties to her decadent postDonald denouement selling costume jewelry and cavorting with a series of "freaky" Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name

The Knight's Tale

At Lavish gatherings from Monaco to the Middle East, Anthony Ritossa built a lucrative business convening the titans who control the "Family offices" of the überwealthy. But the self-styled knight of the realm and purported Nobel Prize nominee turned out to be a Wall Street washout, a deadbeat dad, and a dangerous con man

Across the Universe

Chloé creative director Gabriela Hearst is drawing fashion inspiration from clean energy and the results are electrifying

Hall of Fame

Hollywood director and Rolling Stone veteran Cameron Crowe is taking his rock-movie classic ALMOST FAMOUS to Broadway

Naomi Ackie – The Voice

Naomi Ackie, the dazzling British actor playing Whitney Houston in a new Hollywood biopic, opens up about her surprising road from drama school to Star Wars to the greatest love of all

The Spectacular Life of Octavia E.Butler

In recent years, the author has been hailed as prescient of our political moment. This is the story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.

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.

LYRICS FROM TAYLOR SWIFT'S FUTURE MIDNIGHTS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

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

THE PRICE OF POWER

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

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.

MEMORY SERVES

How Annie Ernaux turns the past into art.

ROYAL DESCENT

Season 5 of The Crown,” on Netflix.

ALL FOR ONE

Quiara Alegria Hudes reinvents her memoir in My Broken Language.

Everything Nice

The boundless optimism of the Spice Girls.

Suzuki Method – No Strings Attached

What the Suzuki method really taught.

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.

Emma Thompson – Acting Up

Emma Thompsons third act.

Content Warning

THIS PRODUCTION contains strobe lights, loud noises, and haze.

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

Nikyatu Jusu's Fables

The director of Nanny, this year's most acclaimed film at Sundance, blends West African folklore and horror.

Ailey, Dorrance Dance, Ratmansky’s Voices”

The emo, electronics-heavy music of the nineteen-eighties British New Wave band Tears for Fears is the unlikely—but oddly compelling—basis for “LOVETRAIN2020,”

Artful Science, Mayan Gods, Senga Nengudi

The Chicago-based phenom Nick Cave is best known for his “Soundsuits,” elaborate wearable assemblages that dazzle whether they’re presented as sculptures or seen in motion during performances.

THE NEW YORKER

THE TALK OF THE TOWN