Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers
This year, high-profile failures abounded. Take, for example, Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project
The American musical is in a state of flux. Today’s Broadway offerings are mostly jukebox musicals a
Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years, it’s provided a backdrop for countless fil
In her new FX docuseries “Social Studies,” the artist and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield delves into th
One of the most fundamental features of art is its ability to meet us during times of distress. In t
Since the comedian Julio Torres came to America from El Salvador, more than a decade ago, his fantas
The art of advice-giving, championed over the years by such figures as Ann Landers and Cheryl Straye
“The Apprentice,” a new film directed by Ali Abbasi, depicts the rise of a young Donald Trump under
In “The Substance,” a darkly satirical horror movie directed by Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore plays an
From classic eighties films like “Wall Street” to Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel “American Psycho,”
Almost immediately after the publication of Sally Rooney’s “Normal People,” in 2018, Rooney-mania hi
The writer Carl Sandburg, in his 1926 biography of Abraham Lincoln, made a provocative claim—that th
This summer, scrutiny of the figure of the “trad wife” hit a fever pitch. These influencers’ account
Until recently, tarot, astrology, and spiritualism—practices often shorthanded simply as woo-woo—wer
Cities have always been romanticized, but few of them have embraced—or actively engineered—their rep
“ ‘BRAT’ summer”—so named for the Charli XCX album that’s become the soundtrack of Kamala Harris’s P
In her 1955 novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith introduced readers to the figure of
The announcement of Kamala Harris’s Presidential run has set off one of the most pronounced vibe shi
Critics at Large is off this week. In the meantime, enjoy a recent episode from Vanity Fair’s “Dynas
In an essay published earlier this month, Andrea Skinner, the daughter of the lauded writer Alice Mu
