Goings On
What to watch, listen to, and do in New York City, online, and beyond.
Goings On
Celebrating the Holidays in N.Y.C.
Favorite traditions light up the season, including “Messiah”s, “Nutcracker”s, Scrooge, James Joyce, the Rockettes, and more.
Get cultural recommendations in your in-box each week.Sign up for the Goings On newsletter »
What We’re Reading
Page-Turner
How Giant Robot Captured Asian America
The magazine explored Asian American culture, without dwelling too much on what that meant.
By Hua Hsu
Page-Turner
A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating
In “My Good Bright Wolf,” Sarah Moss recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation.
By Katy Waldman
Book Currents
Why Josh Brolin Loves James Joyce
On the occasion of his new memoir, the “Dune” actor reflects on some of his formative reading experiences.
Under Review
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By The New Yorker
Listen to lively debates about the art of the moment.Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts »
Goings On
Fall Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in art, theatre, TV, music, dance, and movies.
What We’re Eating
The Food Scene
Put Your Money Where Your Loved One’s Mouth Is
A food writer’s annual guide to gastronomic gift giving.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar
A new lounge above Eleven Madison Park offers refined plant-based bites and beverages while leaving fine-dining social hierarchies intact.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Scene and Substance at New York’s Newest Hot Spot
Bridges, a chic new restaurant from a former Estela chef, offers indulgence through restraint, with eye-opening results.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Helen, Help Me: What If You’re Dining with a Jerk?
Our restaurant critic offers advice on Martini drinking, cutting through restaurant hype, and staying on servers’ good sides.
By Helen Rosner
What We’re Watching
The Front Row
The Operatic Drama of “Maria” Misses Its Cue
Despite Angelina Jolie’s passionate performance, this sensationalized story of Maria Callas’s last days neglects the diva’s true art.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
Is Virginia Tracy the First Great American Film Critic?
The actress, screenwriter, and novelist’s reviews and essays from 1918-19 display a comprehensive grasp of movie art and a visionary sense of its future.
By Richard Brody
The Theatre
Faustian Bargains in “Death Becomes Her” and “Burnout Paradise”
The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.
By Helen Shaw
The Front Row
“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life
With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a mainly Jewish group of French Resistance fighters.
By Richard Brody
What We’re Listening To
Musical Events
Charles Ives, Connoisseur of Chaos
Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.
By Alex Ross
Podcast Dept.
The Mystery of Three Hundred Bodies in the Woods
The podcast “Noble,” about severe malpractice at a Georgia crematorium, shows that even the most shocking of horror stories can be sensitively told.
By Sarah Larson
Listening Booth
Soccer Mommy’s Visceral Chronicle of Loss
On the new album “Evergreen,” the artist Sophie Allison makes sadness come alive and transform.
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Pop Music
The Decline of the Working Musician
You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed.
By Hua Hsu
More Recommendations
Goings On
Dalí, Basquiat, Haring, and Hockney at Luna Luna
Also: Interpol’s “Antics” turns twenty, Kyle Abraham fills Drill Hall, new work by the photographer Jeff Wall, and more.
Goings On
The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank
Also: Rachel Syme samples opulent advent calendars, Helen Shaw reviews “Tammy Faye” and “A Wonderful World,” “Emilia Pérez” is streaming, and more.
Book Currents
Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment.
Goings On
Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Also: Hilton Als on theatrical magic from David Cromer and Zoë Winters, Ralph Lemon at MOMA PS1, “A Real Pain” reviewed, and more.
Book Currents
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s All-Time Favorite Sequels
The New York Times best-selling author of “The Sequel” discusses some standout follow-up novels, including ones by Erica Jong, Chaim Potok, and Scott Turow.
Goings On
Winter Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in art, music, theatre, dance, movies, and television.
Book Currents
Mackenzie Davis’s Bookshelf of Crime Stories
The actress recommends some of her favorite accounts of detectives, deaths, and the down-and-out.
The Food Scene
Quick, Affordable Sushi That’s Still a Cut Above
At Sendo, a Tokyo-style sushi-ya in midtown, the food’s level of sophistication well surpasses its price point.
By Helen Rosner