In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds that, a lot of the time, the quest for the perfect room is self-defeating: tormented by sounds in his neighborhood (among them a neighbor’s rooster), Thomas … Read more
Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission. For a classic piece of nineties Brit pop, Oasis’s “Slide Away” is basically an absurdly romantic ballad of plain devotion and yearning—which “Wuthering Heights” has established as the emotions of the season. May your … Read more
Hello, I’m Emerald Fennell, and I’m the screenwriter and director of “Wuthering Heights.” “Wait till you see your dresses, Cathy.” So in this scene, we have a tour of Thrushcross Grange, which is Cathy’s marital home. It is Edgar Linton and his ward, Isabella, played by the incredible Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver. And they … Read more
Burch tracks these cases, and has conducted her own research on plaintiffs’ experiences. Her findings are sobering: plaintiffs almost never feel that justice has been served, even when they get a financial settlement, since the cases take forever and the plaintiffs frequently lose anywhere from thirty to fifty per cent of their settlements to fees. … Read more
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled, the singer was approached to make a documentary about the tour—a practice that’s been embraced by the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. … Read more
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most Westerns are great adventures about risk and endeavor and glory,” he said. The books that he loves invert that mythology, focussing on characters in situations that don’t … Read more
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs.
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the venue, she espies the classmate, a boy named Saeed (Sajad Mohamad Qasem), picking someone’s pocket. … Read more
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a two-hander. Charlie’s prevailing disgust with his fellow-officers, most of whom all but openly take part in a human-trafficking operation, is sharpened when a young migrant from Mexico, named Maria, has her … Read more
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books; cult favorites, like Bookforum; and irreverent newcomers, like The Drift and The Point, the latter of which I edit. These magazines … Read more