Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff writer 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. If you’re…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch the trailer for “Killer Lies.” In the spring of 2022, The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins reported on the unusual career of Stéphane Bourgoin, a French expert on serial killers known…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In early 2020, Jonas Kooyman, a journalist from Amsterdam, started an Instagram account called @havermelkelite, Dutch for “Oat Milk Élite,” as a way to share his writing about local cultural trends.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Slice.” For Zaire Love, a filmmaker who was born and raised in Memphis, slicing was always a part of summer. “I grew up watching it. I just didn’t know that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What was once known as the Biden Victory Fund raised more than two million dollars on Saturday, at an event held in the liberal haven of Provincetown, on Cape Cod. Maura…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A handheld camera doesn’t necessarily make a fiction film documentary-like, and neither does a story about the hidden underside of daily life. Claire Denis’s second fiction feature, “No Fear, No Die,”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the last DVDs that Netflix ever shipped me was “July Rhapsody” (2002), a moving and melancholy romantic drama written and directed by Ann Hui. I rented it years ago,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As the host of this year’s Summer Olympics, France is hoping that the competitions and festivities will provide an opportunity for the country to capitalize on its rich culture. In his…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In early August of last year, the Tuareg band Mdou Moctar was in the midst of a North American tour, the group’s biggest to date. Its punk-driven energy and transformative, sprawling…