By Yewande Komolafe Yewande Komolafe has been a recipe developer, columnist and video host for The New York Times since 2018. Published April 20, 2026 Updated...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical...
The Poetry Challenge Let’s learn one poem together this week. The Poetry Challenge See Full Poem & Readings Play Game Let’s memorize a poem! Not because...
Like many couples, in advance of their wedding, Heather and Daniel O’Berry asked their friends and family to select their preferred food option: chicken, beef or...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature ‘Romola’ (1863) by George Eliot Karl Leitz for Anthony Cotsifas Studio Who knew that there’s a major George Eliot novel...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature The first work of American fiction about AIDS that received sustained attention was published in 1986, five years after doctors...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature Oedipa Maas from ‘The Crying of Lot 49’ (1966) by Thomas Pynchon Karl Leitz for Anthony Cotsifas Studio “The unforgettable,...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature “Rendezvous in the Milky Way,” a late 19th- or early 20th-century hand-painted woodblock print, depicts a scene from “The Cowherd...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature … 10 According to the writer and illustrator Carson Ellis, 50, the author of the children’s books ‘Home’ (2015) and...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature ‘Prayer’ (1985) by Galway Kinnell Whatever happens. Whateverwhat is is is whatI want. Only that. But that. Galway Kinnell in...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature FRANCE According to the writer Leïla Slimani, 44, the author of ‘The Country of Others’ (2020). Classic ‘Essais de Montaigne’...
How to Be Cultured Menu Literature The Myth of Meeting Oneself “This is evident in Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ (circa 30-19 B.C.) when Aeneas witnesses his own heroic...
How to Be Cultured Menu 1. Greatest onscreen performance? “Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954). He’s so calm, and he speaks the way he’d speak...
How to Be Cultured Menu Architecture and Design 1. Bearded Iris Native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, this flower is “bigger than your typical iris”...
How to Be Cultured Menu 1. Novel that explains the world? “ ‘We’ (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, one of the first to be censored in the Soviet...
How to Be Cultured Menu 1. Poem everyone should memorize? “Pablo Neruda’s ‘Ode to the Onion’ (1954). I find his adoration of simple objects appealing. It...
How to Be Cultured Menu Theater Whether as elaborate props or entire casts, puppets have become a common sight on American stages over the last few...
How to Be Cultured Menu Art Buffalo Buffalo AKG Art Museum ‘Convergence’ (1952) by Jackson Pollock “This is such a distinctly American painting [below],” says the...
“The term ‘performance art’ is a little overused,” admits the curator Klaus Biesenbach, 59. “It’s a bit like how everyone uses the word ‘curator.’” Ever since...
