How to Live Forever
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A friend of mine knew a wealthy man who had decided to live forever. That made him hard to be around, my friend told me, in an e-mail, because he was…
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Jerrod Carmichael Finds the Outer Limits of Confessional Comedy
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2015, the comic Jerrod Carmichael co-created and starred in an NBC sitcom called “The Carmichael Show.” Shot in front of a live audience, the show had a retro feel, gesturing…
Ilana Glazer’s “Babes” Joins a Lineage of Pregnancy Comedies
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some Hollywood clichés are so well understood that they become shorthand for improbable events in the real world. Among pregnant women, the expression “Hollywood birth” is often thrown around to refer…
Richard Brody on Hong Sangsoo’s Stories of Artists in Crisis
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Brody Staff 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. Filmmakers…
“The Idea of You” and the Notion of the Hot Mom
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The sandwiches clinch it. In Michael Showalter’s effervescent new movie, “The Idea of You,” Hayes Campbell, a twenty-four-year-old global pop star, is obviously attracted to Solène Marchand, a divorced, forty-year-old mom…
Who Wins and Who Loses When We Share a Meme
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If you attended the 2019 Venice Biennale, you might have waited in a long line to see the prize-winning piece “Sun & Sea (Marina),” an opera performance staged by three Lithuanian…
New Releases Make Old Jazz Young Again
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story By now, most of the great jazz artists from the mid-century crucibles of bebop and its avant-garde successors are gone, and most of the rest, in their eighties and nineties, have…
Obituary: Alice Munro Reinvigorated the Short Story
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart,’ ” Alice Munro, who died on Monday, at age…
The View from Palestinian America
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1987, when Palestinians rose up against the Israeli occupation in what would become known as the first intifada, I was six years old. Each evening, when Peter Jennings delivered the…
Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A child we cannot see is in danger. We hear the beeping of medical monitors. We hear his nurse say, with sudden sharpness, “I don’t like this.” We hear his mother’s…