Friday, August 29, 2025

Ravi Desai

The Futility of Simulating Nature

In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle. Source link

Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films

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.With seven decades in film and television, Clint Eastwood is undeniably...

A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey | The New Yorker

Evie Cavallo is a young woman who lives in a shoe. To be specific, she rents a twenty-foot-tall cowboy-boot-shaped building, with an industrial-grade kitchen and deteriorating bistro chairs. She has to inform confused visitors, repeatedly, that this is...

André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions

Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the intricacies of how people comprehend the feelings of others—or fail to. In this, they share something with many of the...

King Princess’s Homecoming | The New Yorker

After the Civil War, the German-born Jewish businessman Isidor Straus moved with his family to New York City. Straus was enterprising and handsome, with small round spectacles, an angular nose, and a coarse, peppery beard. He started off...

There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust”

Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a deliverer advancing with lights across the waste of years...

Restaurant Review: Pancakes at Hellbender, S&P Lunch, and Pitt’s

Pancake Soufflé at Pitt’sIt’s arguable that this dish, the flagship dessert at chef Jeremy Salamon’s proudly kitschy Red Hook restaurant, isn’t actually a pancake: no pan, no cake. But it evokes pancakehood in an extraordinary way, by exploiting...

Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype

There’s a certain face that only Sterling K. Brown can make. It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep glee or charming irony as when his character...

The Ambitious Film Deconstructions of Stan Douglas

The enterprising Tiler Peck has been a leading dancer at New York City Ballet for more than fifteen years, played a neurotic ballerina on Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Étoile,” and created a number of ballets of her own. Now she...

“Split Brain,” by Weike Wang

Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not. Source link

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