Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The New York Film Festival, like all worthwhile festivals, regularly offers the joyous surprise of distinctive new artistic voices, whether those of filmmakers who are just starting out or ones whose…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A tense and anticipatory silence engulfed the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It didn’t last long, but an entire universe of waiting seemed to unfold in mere seconds. Then a series of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jackson ArnArt critic You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. “Shanty Town…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At least the first “Joker” movie, Todd Phillips’s 2019 origin story of the Gotham villain as antihero, had the bravado to take its protagonist’s revolt to noxious extremes. The abused, neglected,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last spring, a graduate student in social anthropology—let’s call him Chris—sat down at his laptop and asked ChatGPT for help with a writing assignment. He pasted a few thousand words, a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a nineties kid who grew up drinking bubble tea, I long ago wrote the drink off as a cheap indulgence, whose satisfying sugar rush quickly metabolizes into lingering regret. That…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Seat 31.” Early last year, on a slushy predawn morning, I drove to the Montana state capitol building, in Helena, to see the legislature in action. The body is made…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the end of “Anna Karenina,” Konstantin Levin, the less famous of the novel’s two main protagonists, muses on his isolation amid a loving family. Unlike Anna, he has a happy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I learned, a few days ago, that the Kips Bay AMC didn’t have any real human beings working at its ticket counter,…