These days, when an American President has decreed that “there are only two genders: male and female” and issued a slew of executive orders and actions undermining the rights of trans people, an undaunted, lyrical voice from a...
The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to complicate representations of race in portraiture. In Sherald’s first cover for the magazine, for the...
Saul Steinberg, the Romanian American artist and longtime New Yorker contributor, is as celebrated for his elegant line as he is for his razor-sharp wit. His 1945 début American collection, “All in Line,” recently reissued by New York...
At Spy, Carter had mocked Vanity Fair, which he had found breathy and incestuous. (“In Vanity Fair, it’s sometimes difficult to tell who is slurping whom,” Spy pronounced in 1988.) Now, with no warning or plan, he had...
Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ’s Jonathan Larson; and more.
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In early 1947, the playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to the producer Irene Selznick because Elia Kazan, who had been tapped to direct the Broadway première of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” was balking. Who else could direct “Streetcar”? Williams...
Two individuals, each with plenty of issues and their own communication quirks, collide on opposite ends of a mental-health helpline in Jeremy Beiler’s short film “Happy to Help You.” Amy Sedaris plays Nora, who reluctantly calls in after...
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we...
A Matter of Complexion, by Tess Chakkalakal (St. Martin’s). Charles W. Chesnutt, the subject of this well-considered biography, was born to free people of color in 1858. He could have passed as white, but he identified as Black;...
Soon after Trump signed his Guantánamo directive, he ended Temporary Protected Status for more than three hundred thousand Venezuelans and half a million Haitians, making them eligible for deportation in the coming months. The Administration is considering other...
