Books & Culture

In a new book, the author Casey Johnston argues that pumping iron helped her “escape diet culture.” But a preoccupation with strength can take many forms.

Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”

The smashed, fractured, and non-functional can frustrate us—and illuminate who we are.

A host of accounts by the magazine’s staffers covers a full century of its history, but the trove of recollection is fraught and jumbled.

Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms.

The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens.

“Ghosts of Iron Mountain,” “Turning to Birds,” “The Imagined Life,” and “My Name Is Emilia del Valle.”

The Manhattan restaurateur’s new memoir shows a canny instinct for the finer aspects of dining.

Bringing an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Sam Fleischner’s film highlights the beauty of social responsibility and civic trust.

Ten lesser known films from the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee.

In his brief, brilliant career, Andre Sennwald witnessed the coming of Technicolor, snarked at the implementation of the Hays Code, and advanced a visionary view of cinema.

The new season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO series takes a bold conceptual leap—and, with Sunday night’s episode, it went from an assemblage of stunts to a work of art.

At Kabawa, the chef Paul Carmichael gets scholarly without sacrificing the fun.

Laliko, in the West Village, finds memorable ways to bring the Eastern European country’s cuisine to the world.

A great number of Americans wish to optimize their diets—and their lives.

At Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers.

America’s TV-obsessed President has made his rambling Oval Office press gaggles the signature of his second term—chaotic, self-aggrandizing, random, and frequently nasty.

The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.

He built his lovable persona not on the page but via pictures and improvised chat, the stuff of screens.

The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here?

Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.

Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.

New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more.

Dozens of audience members have lost consciousness watching Eline Arbo’s adaptation of “The Years.” The internet has come to believe that a conspiracy is afoot.

The country singer, on her first headlining tour, plays achy-breaky songs about love and its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes.

Fresh New York stagings of “The Threepenny Opera” and “Love Life” show off the composer’s daring and range.

The actor and musician discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic.”

Nine years after retiring his alter ego, Pat the Bunny, Patrick Schneeweis is ready to sing again.