Fleming’s HBO special, his first for the network, is his chance to tip into mainstream comedy after more than a decade as a cult figure. (Or, as he puts it at the start of the show, “I’m trying to grow my audience beyond women who brought a knife to prom.”) It is also, by far, … Read more
“Godlike” is a poet’s novel, a dazzling Künstlerroman that touches on art, love, aging, and queerness, punctuated with verses by Hell (in both Vaughn’s and Wode’s voices) and his “translations,” or interpretations, of poems originally written by Frank O’Hara. The prose is dotted with allusions to the works of Joseph Conrad, Jorge Luis Borges, and … Read more
Hi, I’m Chloé Zhao. I am the director of “Hamnet.” This is when Agnes, who’s played by Jessie Buckley, comes to the Globe Theater to see her husband, William Shakespeare, played by Paul Mescal, his play, “Hamlet,” inspired by their son, Hamnet, who had passed away. “Look at me.” And in that moment, she realizes … Read more
Martin Parr, who died in December, at the age of seventy-three, had a specific paint color in mind for the first room of “Global Warning,” a retrospective of his photographs that’s currently on display at the Jeu de Paume, in Paris. The show’s curator, Quentin Bajac, had suggested that they go with something classic—i.e., white—but … Read more
As Venus educates Rika in the art of self-possession, we are only moderately surprised when Rika informs us, “I was in love with the marble goddess.” When she abruptly mentions that she and Venus “had sex for the first time”—a dreamy aesthetic experience that doesn’t require Rika to take off her clothes, much less her … Read more
Hite was not like other sexologists, with their academic affiliations and institutionally approved methods. She was not much like Alfred Kinsey, the primary author of the aforementioned reports and the founder of an actual institute, who died in 1956. Kinsey’s team of researchers conducted structured interviews about people’s sexual behavior, which famously revealed a far … Read more
But there is a problem: Beethoven begins to disappear. In the energy and flow of the dancing, the “Eroica” starts to sound like an accompaniment or a favorite song pulled off Spotify. Watching it was a strange experience. I couldn’t feel Beethoven’s depths, and I began to notice that the darker emotions of the score, … Read more
Kadir Nelson’s painting for the cover of the March 9, 2026, issue was inspired by the frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall that have swept across much of the country recently. Last week, parts of New York City saw nearly two feet in a span of twenty-four hours, and bright blue skies the following day. For … Read more
Through his conversations with artists, he learned that they sometimes used photographs as source materials. Atget decided to provide those source materials. He rose early to bear witness to Paris of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a place of increasing modernization through industrialization, and to reflect those changes in photographs for “real” artists … Read more
In Lisa McGee’s show “Derry Girls,” about a group of teen-agers growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the threat of violence—in the form of car bombings and street riots—was portrayed as so commonplace that it became, effectively, a nuisance. It wasn’t just terrifying; it was annoying, getting in the way of salon appointments … Read more