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Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
In a new story collection, the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a discourse that can lean toward self-seriousness.
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The Art of American Sophistication
How striving, self-invention, and charm became America’s national style.
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Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
In Grandmaster Flash’s new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how hip-hop began.
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Helen, Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners.
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The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely,…
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The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a…
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A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession
The liberal-arts college Oberlin has barely won any football games in the past few years. Still, one senior argued, the school and its…
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How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes, with images of overturned cars, collisions, and a…
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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind…
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The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide.
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The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means”
“By Any Means,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in…
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Have We Destroyed Childhood?
Experts say that childhood is suffering. They just can’t agree on the cause.
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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
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“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma
Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person.
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Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe
Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa.
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Five Great Campus Novels
Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season.
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The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
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Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair
Olivia Rodrigo’s daylong, woman-led event felt at times like any other corporate music festival. But, if music is the measure, it was up…
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Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the…
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Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master
Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until…
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Bistrot Ha Is the Right Kind of Restaurant Evolution
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened…
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“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object…