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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.
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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.
Page-Turner

A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating

In “My Good Bright Wolf,” Sarah Moss recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation.
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.
Listen to lively debates about the art of the moment.Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts »

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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
Listening Booth

Soccer Mommy’s Visceral Chronicle of Loss

On the new album “Evergreen,” the artist Sophie Allison makes sadness come alive and transform.
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.

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.