SAVING FIVE: A Memoir of Hope, by Amanda Nguyen There is a phrase that recurs at key points throughout Amanda Nguyen’s powerful memoir of activism and...
Standing in her studio on the South Side of Chicago earlier this winter, the abstract painter and architect Amanda Williams was surprised by a dark blue...
What is Panem? Panem is a fictionalized, future version of the United States. People in the country’s 12 districts, which loosely correspond to regions of the...
After captivating audiences as the glamorous Astrid in “Crazy Rich Asians,” Gemma Chan was sent quite a few scripts with dignified but unhappy wives. She sensed...
On Dec. 10, Michael Connelly stood on the patio behind his house in the Hollywood Hills and gazed down at a generous slice of the city...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Lady Gaga’s sixth solo pop album, “Mayhem,” was released last week, and its retro palette immediately connected...
The hottest play on Broadway was written more than 400 years ago. Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal face off in Shakespeare’s “Othello” is...
A corner of New York hasn’t seemed quite itself since the Frick Collection shuttered during Covid for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment. For...
At his job at an apparel store in SoHo, Thomas Lanese uses phrases that he would never utter outside of a work setting, like, “I’ll shoot...
HYPOCHONDRIA, by Will Rees As a cultural attitude, “ignorance is bliss” has sort of fallen out of favor. Much more de rigueur: “Do the work,” “the...
