Books
-
Unfurling the Unusual Costumes of ‘Poor Things’
The designer Holly Waddington breaks down how Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter evolves onscreen, from her childish knickers to her cage-like…
-
16th-Century Beauty Secrets, Revealed
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and…
-
The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust
When the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sat down for his profanity-laced interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit in…
-
Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?
This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.
-
Review: The Met’s New ‘Carmen’ Trades Castanets for Cutoffs
Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.
-
America Ferrera and the ‘Barbie’ Monologue We All Talked About
Listing some of the many perils of womanhood in a still patriarchal society, the monologue that the actress America Ferrera…
-
Emily Blunt Doesn’t Care if Her ‘Oppenheimer’ Character Is Likable
As the brilliant but flawed Kitty Oppenheimer, the actress plays a woman who had “extraordinary qualities, as well as ones…
-
What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2024
“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
-
With Tom Wilkinson, Would You Get a Time Bomb or a Warm Hug?
In his performances in “Michael Clayton” and other films, he brought an element of danger and uncertainty that kept us…
-
Dave Chappelle Assumes We’re Already Offended in His New Netflix Special
“The Dreamer” predictably includes trans and disabled jokes but punches down in other ways, too. Chappelle is part of a…