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Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post
Worse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if he can stop by a newsstand so I don’t...
Keith McNally’s Guide to Making a Scene
McNally seemed to enjoy occupying a place in New York’s cultural landscape; he describes McInerney asking for permission to use the restaurant’s image and giving him a manuscript to...
“The Rehearsal” Finally Achieves Liftoff
The second season of “The Rehearsal” is instantly better than the first because it’s about something. In the show’s previous season, Nathan Fielder developed and applied his methodology—the so-called...
The Caribbean Restaurant Reinventing the Momofuku Empire
If you ever had the pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko, the wonderful, ambitious, and sometimes sort of compellingly bizarre tasting-menu restaurant that closed in 2023, it can be...
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world.So what do you think your responsibility is?My responsibility is to make you laugh. And, if I’m being malicious,...
The Secrets of Physique Magazines
I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the sight of it. I was probably eight or nine,...
My Brain Finally Broke
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning...
Andrea Long Chu Owns the Libs
In “Authority: Essays,” a new collection of criticism from the past five years, Andrea Long Chu explains that her goal is to make a reader feel “as if I...
Disco Balls and Roller Skates, at Xanadu
In the lushly pleasurable Bobby Darin bio-musical “Just in Time,” by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, the director Alex Timbers ensconces his sweet-voiced star Jonathan Groff in a gleaming...
“Caught by the Tides” Is a Gorgeous Vision of Loss and Renewal
More than two decades in the making, Jia Zhangke’s mostly archival film embodies the sweeping transformations of modern China in its very construction. Source link
