My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent...
“Pastoralia,” the title story in this collection, is about two people who work in a theme park, pretending to be cavemen. Like in “Atropia,” the main character is completely obsessed with maintaining authenticity, and is deeply frustrated by...
Got all that? Good. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is many things: a lengthy demo reel for the latest sophistications in performance-capture technology, for which we can credit the ever more lifelike quality of the Na’vi characters, and the...
Published December 15, 2025 09:21AMMore than 50 years ago, a boom in outdoor recreation spread across the country, and camping became one of the defining experiences for families and friends in America. Since 1962, KOA has supported this...
The British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died, in September, at the age of seventy-eight, after a groundbreaking and globe-spanning career, leaving behind a catalogue that ranges from images of war-torn Afghanistan during the mid- to late nineties to scenes...
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist...
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios, many still under their longtime executives, struggled to keep pace, and Hollywood continued to face declining attendance, from thirty million...
Employees told me that the new hires “don’t understand the basic vocabulary” of arts administration. They have questions. Things like, what is “capacity”? What is an “arena show”? What is a “backline”? What is “stage left”? What is...
In service to his vision of the world, the President has spent the year undoing every environmental law he can find. The zeal of his lieutenants—Lee Zeldin, at the Environmental Protection Agency; the former fracking executive Christopher Wright,...
