Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Culture

The Megachurch That Tried to Confront Racism

When it comes to Christianity, scale often matters: the larger the data set, the worse the outlook on any number of axes, from membership to charitable giving, while the more anecdotal the account, the better things seem. Take...

What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life?

As an obsessed amateur photographer, I spend too much time reading photography forums on the Internet. Not long ago, I came across a particularly plaintive discussion. “Let’s say, hypothetically, I’d like my future great, great grandchildren (and their...

Briefly Noted

“Shakespeare’s Tragic Art,” “The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924,” “The Third Realm,” and “The Book of George.” Source link

Restaurant Review: The Vivid Second Life of a Mexican Supper Club

In a colorful space in Hamilton Heights, Cocina Consuelo does serious renditions of beef birria, mole negro, and cinnamon-scented café de olla. Source link

Girl, What Waist? | The New Yorker

Remember the Trompe l’Oeil Sweatpants from Balenciaga? The nearly twelve-hundred-dollar heather-gray drawstring pants that seemed ordinary, innocent of fashion, until the shopper, scanning upward, caught the plaid trick happening at the waist—the idea. It was the suggestion of...

Scary Movies for Spooky Season

Rachel SymeStaff writerThere is little better, when the weather turns just chilly enough to necessitate a big scarf and a leather jacket, than to duck into a movie theatre to see a film that makes your blood run...

Adam Driver and Jim Parsons Star in Two Versions of Americana

Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold On to Me Darling,” a discursive, queasily romantic comedy about the emptiness of American celebrity, is back for another stint Off Broadway. At the Lucille Lortel, the director Neil Pepe is largely reprising his Atlantic...

The Met’s “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350, ” Reviewed

Chop down a poplar tree. Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes. These you’ll need to coat in a barrier of...

Do They Really Believe That Stuff?

Over the last couple of months, a neighbor of ours has been upping her sign game. In addition to the usual stuff—“Law and Order,” “Not My President,” “No Legal Rights for Illegal Immigrants,” and so on—she’s added “Democrats...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

The Burning Earth, by Sunil Amrith (Norton). In this expansive book, a historian places the earth’s ecological plight in the context of human exploitation. Amrith’s inventory of crucial events begins with the Charter of the Forest of 1217,...
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The Best and Worst of Trader Joe’s Fall 2025 Lineup

Peanut Butter and Jelly SandwichesThe snack and the lawsuit we’ve been waiting for. Finally, Trader Joe’s duped Smucker’s...
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