Monday, March 16, 2026

Culture

How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I am a...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“Careless People,” “A Fractured Liberation,” “The Float Test,” and “Your Steps on the Stairs.” Source link

Restaurant Review: A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings

The restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an alumnus ofKhinkali House, a Guliani Group restaurant in Moscow), as well as Jimi Kurtanidze, a cook dedicated full-time...

Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore. Source link

A Long, Hard Look at America

One of the strangest works of art in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, is a painting by Jan Jansz Mostaert, who was born in Haarlem. It dates from around 1535 and bears the title “Landscape with an Episode from...

The Show Can’t Go On

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. Source link

The Torment of a Neighbor’s Noise in “Beeps”

Kirk Johnson’s documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right. Source link

Amanda Hess’s “Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age,” Reviewed

When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he did not like.” He suspected a rare genetic condition; Hess underwent an amniocentesis and then an...

The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar

In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York, Pennsylvania, known as “the father of weightlifting,” and an early manufacturer of barbells, hawked a...

Restaurant Review: Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak

The important thing to know about Danny & Coop’s, the new Philly-cheesesteak restaurant in the East Village co-owned by Bradley Cooper, of the piercing blue eyes and the considerable acting-directing chops, is this: the cheesesteak is good. It’s...
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From Emma Stone to Jessie Buckley, 6 Stars Wearing Monochrome Makeup at the 2026 Oscars

When it comes to award-show glamour, I drink up every detail of the looks that make our best...
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