Onward and Upward with the Arts
Jack White’s Infinite Imagination
By Alec Wilkinson
He used to be exclusively a rock star. Now he’s a songwriter, a producer, a label owner, and a furniture upholsterer, too.
Page-Turner
Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot
By The New Yorker
A new way to discover, read, listen to, and share poetry from the magazine’s archive.
Culture Desk
“Get Out,” a Leap Forward in Black Film
By Brandon Harris
Jordan Peele’s movie is a work that deserves, in its own way, to be viewed alongside Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight.”
Goings on About Town
Where to go, what to do
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Tables for Two
Dokebi Bar & Grill Conjures Korean Feasts
By Jiayang Fan
This Williamsburg restaurant serves a thoughtfully curated, health-conscious menu that does not so much forsake tradition as refurbish it.
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Bar Tab
The Diamond’s Fiercely Loyal Following
By Talia Lavin
Tucked away in Greenpoint is a bar that curates its calendar as carefully as its beer list.
The Critics
Pop Music
Maggie Rogers, An Artist of Her Time
By Amanda Petrusich
The singer and songwriter is the product of a culture that no longer thinks the organic and the synthesized are in opposition.
A Critic at Large
Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished Novel
By Anthony Lane
Two hundred years after its author’s death, “Sanditon” remains a robust, unsparing portrait of human foolishness.
The Theatre
A Wondrous Production of “Sweeney Todd”
By Hilton Als
In Bill Buckhurst’s staging, the actors open Sondheim’s brilliant lyrics up to a new freshness.
Books
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“The Schooldays of Jesus,” “A Book of American Martyrs,” “Jonathan Swift,” and “This Close to Happy.”
Photo Booth
Ryan McGinley’s Exuberant Downtown, 1999–2003
By E. P. Licursi
The exhibit “Early” captures the exuberance of being young, beautiful, and down and out in New York.
Spotlight
Culture Desk
Cover Story: “Opening Night”
By Françoise Mouly
“I sketched this after coming back from a gallery,” Carter Goodrich says, about his cover for this week’s issue.
Culture Desk
Dolce & Gabbana’s Runway Experiment
By Christina Binkley
The designers’ Milan Fashion Week show used amateur models of all ages, shapes, and sizes. It was disjointed and excessive. That was the point.
Culture Desk
The Joke That Liberals Needed
By Ian Crouch
The nonsense campaign of Trump and his supporters must be recognized as such and ignored—or mocked and hijacked in a better direction.
Culture Desk
The Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast
By William Robin
The show is a tightly produced exploration of modern composition that benefits from musical immersion.
Podcasts
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episode 72: Goonswarm Takes Over, Trump/Nixon, and Birding with Jonathan Franzen
A populist uprising in an online multiplayer video game, and Jonathan Franzen’s favorite place to spot birds.
Cultural Comments
Cultural Comment
George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements
By Peter Schjeldahl
The former President’s surprisingly likable, starkly disturbing new book, “Portraits of Courage,” collects his paintings of wounded veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Cultural Comment
Future Shock at the Met?
By Andrea K. Scott
Whatever the next steps for the museum, it must not become so enmeshed with the art-fair set that it loses sight of the long view.
Cultural Comment
A Historian Detained in Texas
By Nathan Heller
How Henry Rousso, a renowned expert on Vichy France, became ensnared in the sort of spiralling historical irony that he is more used to analyzing.
Cultural Comment
The Oscars and Our Computer-Simulated Reality
By Adam Gopnik
The theory, put forward by philosophers, is far from a joke, or a mere conceit.
Video
Breaking Down Tracy K. Smith’s Poem “Solstice”
By Sky Dylan-Robbins
Jia Tolentino on poetry as a refuge, and finding meaning in Tracy K. Smith’s “Solstice.”