- Reeves Wiedeman: Jay-Z at the New York Public Library.
Flash Rosenberg, an artist-in-residence at the New York Public Library, sat toward the back of the Celeste Bartos Forum last week, surrounded by assorted pens, a tray of watercolors, and thirty-odd colored pencils. Part of Rosenberg’s gig is creating what she calls animated “snapshots . . ....
- Roddy Doyle: “Ash.”
We’ll still be friends, she said.
—Grand, he answered, and then he was walking down a street by himself, before he fully understood what had happened. He knew the street, although not very well. He wasn’t sure why he was there, why they’d . . ....
- Tessa Hadley: “The Stain.”
The old man’s daughter made inquiries in the village, looking for someone to go there every weekday and keep an eye on him, to clean the place and cook something for his lunch and tea. He wasn’t incapacitated, but he wasn’t used to looking . . . (Subscription required.)...
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Rodrigo Garcia directed this drama, set in nineteenth-century Ireland, about a woman (Glenn Close) who pretends to be a man in order to preserve her independence. Co-starring Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Opening Jan. 27. (In wide . . ....
- Junot Díaz: “The Money.”
All the Dominicans I knew in those days sent money home. My mother didn’t have a regular job besides caring for us five kids, so she scrimped the loot together from whatever came her way. My father was always losing his forklift jobs, so it wasn’t . . . (Subscription required.)...
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In this drama, directed by Rodrigo Cortés, a U.S. contractor working in Iraq is kidnapped and buried alive. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Robert Paterson. Opening Sept. 24. (In wide release.)
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Gaspar Noé directed this drama, about a . . ....
- David Grann: Can a fingerprint expert identify one lost masterpiece after another?
Every few weeks, photographs of old paintings arrive at Martin Kemp’s eighteenth-century house, outside Oxford, England. Many of the art works are so decayed that their once luminous colors have become washed out, their shiny coats of varnish darkened by grime and riddled with spidery cracks. Kemp . . ....
- David Long: Oubliette.
Her mother used to call her “a chip off the old Chilcott,” but then wasn’t it perfectly obvious that she was Peter Chilcott’s daughter? Her eyes were his eyes, stone gray, protruding. Her stringy torso was his, his long-legged amble. By ninth grade . . . (Subscription required.)...
- David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure.”
In the spring of 1976, before the start of their affair, before he became her husband, before she knew anything about him, Polina had noticed Alec in one or another of the V.E.F. buildings, always looking vaguely, childishly amused.
“If my Papatchka ran the factory, maybe I’d . . ....
- Hilton Als: Thomas Bradshaw’s “Burning.”
At first I didn’t get it. But soon after I started seeing Thomas Bradshaw’s plays, in 2008, Rochelle Owens’s voice began to insinuate its way into my thoughts as well. It wasn’t that the two playwrights are stylistically similar. The brilliantly discombobulated . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Michael Ondaatje: “The Cat’s Table.”
He wasn’t talking. He was looking out the window of the car all the way. The two adults in the front seat spoke quietly under their breath. He could have listened if he wanted to but he didn’t. For a while, at the section of the . . . (Subscription required.)...
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- David Sedaris: Language lessons on the road.
On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin. “Goddammit,” I whispered. “I knew I forgot something.”
Normally, when landing in a foreign country, I’m prepared . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Hilton Als: Joe Cino honored at the N.Y.P.L. for the Performing Arts.
The theatrical pioneer Joe Cino wasn’t interested in the mundane. The operatic highs and lows of his life weren’t separate from his great creation: a café that’s largely credited with establishing New York’s Off-Off Broadway theatre scene. He called it . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Katie Ford: “November Philosophers”
Nothing is nothing, although
he would call me that, She was nothing.
Those were his words, but his hand was lifting
cigarettes in chains and bridges
of ash-light. He said he didn’t want his body to last.
It wasn’t a year I could argue
against . . ....
- Hilton Als: Just Rewards
Sutton Foster won. That was great. The essential Drama Book Shop was recognized. Terrific. But, looking around, one couldn’t help but notice what was missing at this year’s Tony Awards. Now that Broadway is more diverse than ever, diversity wasn’t entirely rewarded this year . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Ben McGrath: Does the N.F.L. have a future?
I still remember my first football game. It was 1983. I was six. My father took me to our local high school, in northern New Jersey, and we sat on the home team’s side, but it wasn’t long before my allegiance began to waver. The opponents . . ....
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- Burkhard Bilger: New York City’s canine police force.
The weapons were housed in Long Island City, in a low-slung, prefabricated building on Northern Boulevard. I could hear them growling and yammering in the dark. I’d arrived well before dawn on a wet, chilly October morning, and still wasn’t sure how to proceed. A . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Cleopatra Mathis: “Western Conifer Seed Bug.”
He’d become a house guest, noncommittal
and impassive. She tried to see to it
he wasn’t disturbed, nothing to trip him up:
a book, perhaps, laid down
in some rash motion might scare him
off an edge, although he had a talent, it seemed,
for focussing . . ....
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- Lauren Collins: Times Square vs. The High Line.
In 1642, a wheelwright named Claes Rademaker, stooping over a chest of duffels cloth, which he had intended to barter for beaver pelts, was axed in the back of the neck. The murder occurred, the settler David de Vries wrote, “on the Wickquasgeck road over which the Indians passed . . ....
- Donald Antrim: “Ever Since.”
Ever since his wife had left him—but she wasn’t his wife, was she? he’d only thought of her that way, had begun to think of her that way, since her abrupt departure, the year before, with Richard Bishop—Jonathan had taken up a . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Susan Wheeler: From “The Split.”
8217;Bye, kid in first grade on your paddle cart.
’Bye, Lorraine, Outward Bound in the snow.
’Bye, motorcycle David.
’Bye, you bright spirits, born of my friends. Jimmy. Nathalie.
’Bye, beautiful one, your father said your pink skin would be tender, I was afraid for . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Lizzie Widdicombe: David Burke Kitchen in SoHo.
David Burke Kitchen, in the James Hotel, in SoHo, is the place to see David Burke—the man who brought cheesecake lollipop trees to Bloomingdale’s and pupu platters to the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, in Times Square—get on board with the farm-to-table craze. If . . ....
- Joan Acocella: David Hallberg in Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
David Hallberg, of American Ballet Theatre, has spent a lot of time in “prince” roles. You can see why. He is six feet one and blindingly handsome, and also—a rare feature—extremely sweet. That’s nice, but you have to wonder: Is there a . . ....
- Joan Acocella: David Gordon’s “Dancing Henry Five.”
David Gordon has always been postmodern dance’s premier minimalist. So you could say he was almost showing off when, in 2004, he took on Shakespeare’s “Henry V”—with its massed armies, its take-charge king, its pretty princess—and made his own . . . (Subscription required.)...
- John Kinsella: “Megamouth Shark.”
Should we be grateful they’re claiming
it not as art but as science? Or are they smugly
doubling up—the art of preservation the boon
of research? Megamouth, so rare it wasn’t recorded
as science until 1976, daytime deep dweller
off the continental shelf to . . . (Subscription required.)...
