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Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
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“The White Lotus” Overstays Its Welcome
Given the number of murders that have taken place at White Lotus resorts since the HBO series began, in 2021, one wonders why visitors continue to flock to them....
“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane BuaBua writes about classical music for Goings On.Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” For just three words, “Call me...
M Is for Mortality: Lessons from Edward Gorey on His Hundredth Birthday
Gorey said, “I write about everyday life.” His work reminds us that death is a major fact of existence. Source link
The Theatrical Release of “Compensation” Is Cause for Celebration
It took only twenty-five years from the time that “Compensation,” Zeinabu irene Davis’s first fiction feature, premièred at Sundance to the time, this coming Friday, that it gets its...
Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women
In “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee’s best-selling début novel, the protagonist, Casey Han, is the ambitious daughter of Korean immigrants, who struggles to balance her aspiration with...
The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul
In the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan was snappy: “1. Retire all government employees with full...
The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction
Kyle Monson, the founder of a creative agency, felt overwhelmed by the news in the aftermath of the 2024 election. So he and his wife turned to binge-watching the...
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch
There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in its steadfast, defiant plainness, nestles next to two scoops...
The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes
Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two,...
