Goings On
What to watch, listen to, and do in New York City, online, and beyond.
Goings On
The Trendiest Piercing Studios in N.Y.C.
Also: The influential aesthetic of “Africa’s Fashion Diaspora,” the return of Bright Eyes, the democratic Fall for Dance festival, and more.
What We’re Reading
Under Review
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By The New Yorker
Under Review
What Charlotte Shane Learned from Sex Work
In the memoir “An Honest Woman,” Shane uses her experience selling sex as the basis for a sustained meditation on male-female relations.
By Lili Owen Rowlands
Page-Turner
The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
By The New Yorker
Page-Turner
Panels of Protest
A graphic novel brings French student activism of the sixties to the fore.
By Dominique Grange and Jacques Tardi
Goings On
Fall Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in art, theatre, TV, music, dance, and movies.
What We’re Eating
The Food Scene
At Din Tai Fung, Soup Dumplings with a Side of Spectacle
The Taiwanese chain’s first New York location offers consistently excellent meals choreographed with the friendly inflexibility of a mass-entertainment experience.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Helen, Help Me: How Can I Tell a Buzzy Restaurant from a Great One?
Our food critic answers readers’ questions on where and how to dine out.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
A Brooklyn Gas Station with Serious Grub
Inside a BP, Blue Hour offers a greatest-hits album of fast-food favorites made with high-quality ingredients and a considerable amount of care.
By Helen Rosner
On and Off the Menu
Bonnie Slotnick, the Downtown Food-History Savant
In the forty-eight years that she’s lived in the West Village, the owner of the iconic cookbook shop has never ordered delivery.
By Hannah Goldfield
What We’re Watching
The Theatre
Even Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Can’t Power “The Roommate”
A Midwestern empty nester opens her home to a tough-talking New Yorker in Jen Silverman’s sputtering star vehicle.
By Helen Shaw
The Front Row
“The Featherweight” Deftly Probes the Mores—and the Filmmaking—of a Bygone Era
Taking the form of a nineteen-sixties documentary, Robert Kolodny’s début feature goes behind the scenes of a real-life boxer’s ill-advised comeback.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
“Rebel Ridge” Is a Police Drama with a Difference
Jeremy Saulnier’s action film spotlights a young marine veteran’s resistance to corrupt and abusive officers in a small Southern town.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
“Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously
Susanna Fogel’s surprisingly jovial bio-pic about the whistle-blower Reality Winner fills a conventional format with patriotic outrage.
By Richard Brody
What We’re Listening To
Pop Music
MJ Lenderman Keeps It Raw
The artist discusses resisting the neutering effects of technology, his breakup with a bandmate, and his new album, “Manning Fireworks.”
By Amanda Petrusich
Listening Booth
Sabrina Carpenter’s Funny, Feisty “Short n’ Sweet”
The artist sings with wry, petulant specificity, whether she’s addressing a boyfriend, an ex-boyfriend, or that ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend.
By Carrie Battan
Listening Booth
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s New Album Steeped in Longing
On “Woodland,” even tracks ostensibly grounded in a feeling of satisfaction evoke that which has slipped away.
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Pop Music
How Post Malone Made Himself at Home in Country Music
Everyone’s headed to Nashville these days, but no one is as comfortable there as he is.
By Kelefa Sanneh
More Recommendations
Goings On
Basil Twist’s “Dogugaeshi,” and More Exhilarating Theatre from Abroad
Also: The intuitive rap of Mavi, New York City Ballet’s new season, Jackson Arn’s top Prospect Heights spots, and more.
Goings On
Usher, the King of R. & B.
Also: The wrenching documentary “Daughters,” the Fourth Wall Ensemble in Green-Wood Cemetery, Lauren Collins on truth and deception.
The Food Scene
Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback
The restaurateurs behind Frenchette and Le Rock have face-lifted and spit-shined the city’s oldest surviving French restaurant while remaining obsessed with its history.
By Helen Rosner
Goings On
The Charismatic Vitality of Pacita Abad’s Trapuntos
Also: The Nigerian singer Asake, Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Gloria,” the Boscobel Chamber Music Festival, and more.
The Food Scene
A “Top Chef” Winner Reheats at Il Totano
A buzzy new Italian-ish spot from Harold Dieterle doesn’t seem to know what kind of restaurant it’s trying to be.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
The Most Anticipated New N.Y.C. Restaurants This Fall
Clemente Bar, Elbow Bread, and Joo Ok are just a few of the many openings.
By Helen Rosner
Goings On
Nick Cave’s Transfixing Chants
Also: Blake Lively in “It Ends with Us,” a lo-fi burn at the Tank, Reynaldo Rivera at MOMA PS1, and more.
The Food Scene
Strange Delight Channels New Orleans in All the Right Ways
The new seafood restaurant in Fort Greene treats the Crescent City with subtlety and studiousness, without sacrificing any fun.
By Helen Rosner