Goings On

New Yorker writers on long, immersive books that are worth the plunge.

A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.

The poet and playwright, who has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, discusses four books by her closest teachers.

With the cartoonist’s new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the “light, fun” book she’s longed to write.

Confidant is hoping to draw diners to the sprawling Brooklyn mall known as Industry City.

Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City.

Most sundaes are satisfying, but only a select subset are truly special.

Can Danny Meyer make the View transcend its touristy gimmick?

The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices.

Ana de Armas energizes this turbulent but thinned-out spinoff from the Keanu Reeves martial-arts franchise.

Amy Holden Jones’s 1983 melodrama should have established her as a major Hollywood director, but, as a female filmmaker, she faced rejection.

The artist presents herself as a gently debauched girl next door on her new album, “Addison.” It’s positioned to be one of the summer’s marquee offerings.

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The band was willfully ironic and averse to canonization. An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs its nose at the epic rock bio-pic.

In “Spotlight: Snitch City,” the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town.