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Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?
August 11, 2026
This summary does an injustice to the originality and the sophistication of Tregenza’s way with narrative form. The tale unfolds in many time frames—Sterling’s memory-fraught quest for speed, the...
Where Wild Things Go
August 10, 2026
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Pope.L’s Pleasing Refusal to Be Interpreted
August 10, 2026
A new exhibition at the Drawing Center, “Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L,” shows how the artist extended his practice of principled unreason—or what his grandmother once...
Edward Steed’s “Midnight Bloom”
August 10, 2026
The cartoonist Edward Steed, originally from the U.K., now lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens, just a short walk from the ocean. “Nothing captures the natural world’s mixture of beauty,...
A Short Song for a Long and Precious Season
August 9, 2026
But “Something to Love” is an anthem of summer, not of child rearing. Isbell’s lyrics unfold in that long, leisurely way that the hottest months of the year do,...
Why Can’t I Stop Writing About Where I’m From?
August 8, 2026
When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from? Source link
Sam Smith on Their New Album, “Hazel Eyes”
August 7, 2026
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Sam Smith burst onto...
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose
August 7, 2026
Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more. Source link
Critics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night”
August 6, 2026
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.When it dropped in January of 1997, Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday...
“Tributaries,” by Kyle Edwards
August 6, 2026
He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both. Source link
Ryan Murphy “Glee”-ifies Bret Easton Ellis’s Thriller “The Shards”
August 5, 2026
Equally lethal are Bret’s writerly aspirations. His ability to spin stories about the Trawler means that he is destabilized by the crimes in a way that his classmates aren’t....
What Makes an Adaptation Good?
August 5, 2026
But, if the art of filmmaking is inseparable from that of adaptation, it’s because almost all feature films are made by way of a fundamental form of adaptation: that...