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Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large, quiet corner of the country....
Winter Culture Previews
Lorde, Clipse,
Sudan ArchivesThere’s a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter’s slate of shows in contemporary music. Those looking for ambience should catch the sound-design pioneer Suzanne...
Claire-Louise Bennett’s Misanthropic Breakup Novel
And the narrator, despite her waning attraction, continues to call and write to him. She is recalcitrant as a rule. This is a woman who, by the second page...
Emma Thompson Talks with Helen Shaw
On October 26, 2025, the actor and writer Emma Thompson joined the staff writer Helen Shaw for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of...
Ken Jennings Talks with Tyler Foggatt
On October 25, 2025, the author and game-show host Ken Jennings joined the senior editor Tyler Foggatt onstage at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations,...
“Fire of Wind” Is a Bold and Inspired Début
There is a sense of replay in the heightened and artificial diction with which Mateus has her cast bear witness, and this sense is enhanced by the painterly compositions...
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
Last week, as ICE raids ramped up in New York, city residents set about resisting in the ways they had available: confronting agents directly on sidewalks, haranguing them as...
Nicholas Thompson and the Art of the Run
In Nicholas Thompson’s book, “The Running Ground,” which came out this week, he writes that “Over the years, the sport has shifted my imagination and my sense of self.”...
When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically, in “The Ban”
In Dublin in 1981, at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis—an annual convention for what was widely regarded as the Irish Republican Army’s political wing—Danny Morrison, who had become Sinn...
In Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a Vast Vision Gets Netflixed Down to Size
The first time we encounter the Creature, though, we see almost nothing of him at all: he is a faceless wraith, in a dark cloak and a vengeful mood,...
