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Worlds in Rooms
I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with...
How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this,...
Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory”
Watch “The Candy Factory.” Some forty years ago, Ann Ballentine, a real-estate agent with an eccentric sense of style and a knack for fostering community, bought a building in...
Was the Renaissance Real?
Roeck goes on to address the great question of why Europe became the center of prosperity and innovation on the planet. Colonialism and imperialism can’t explain it; they’re as...
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Chiaroscuro at the Met”
For the cover of the August 4, 2025, issue, the artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov depicted the scene in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a typical summer day....
What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap
His reluctance to treat family structure as a causal factor is similarly puzzling. He notes that married Black households have an average wealth of two hundred and thirty thousand...
L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids
In early July, while shopping at a farmers’ market on the east side of Los Angeles, where I live, I bought a few packages of raw chicken thighs from...
A Young Parisian Chef’s Nouvelle Stodginess
I wanted more from Le Chêne, and from Duchêne. Not just more salt but more daring, more challenge, more bold and experimental vulgarity. Her crab thermidor (like many of...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable
A few hours after the news of Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death began to spread, one of my closest friends called me. I knew before I picked up that he wanted...
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” in an...
