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“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style

Paper cuts are the worst. In “No Other Choice,” a new comic thriller from the South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a longtime employee at a pulp manufacturer called Solar Paper, is one of many...

“Waiting to Exhale,” Thirty Years On

Forest Whitaker’s “Waiting to Exhale” is perhaps the quintessential “chick flick”—and an ideal case study for all that the cinematic subgenre can do. The “chick flick” often concerns heroines in the midst of personal transformation, and it’s capacious...

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025

Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp that there is a crisis at hand. In August, the journal iScience published a study...

Ten of My Favorite Cookbooks of 2025

The year’s best culinary titles include a food history of the United States, a guide to being an excellent dinner-party guest, and a collection of recipes that people decided to take to their graves. Source link

Jim Jarmusch’s Ironically Optimistic Family Movie

Also: Graciela Iturbide’s tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in “Song Sung Blue,” the coke-rap of Clipse, and more. Source link

A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm

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...

What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia

“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...

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Mostly Treads Water

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...

Affordable Camping Made Easy

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...

Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”

Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, Source link
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Three-Minute Vinaigrette and More Recipes We Made This Week

It’s no secret that Bon Appétit editors cook a lot for work. So it should come as no...
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