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“To Sunland,” by Lauren Groff

“Then, all at once, there was Joanie in the morning light in front of him, her own suitcase in her hand and a little straw hat with a yellow band on her head.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/v82k0rA

The Supreme Court’s Selective Memory

The Court’s originalist justification for striking down a New York gun law is more than capricious—it relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that deliberately excludes women and people of color. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/3dIqnzF

Making Magic, at Place des Fêtes

At this new Clinton Hill bar and restaurant, the chef and co-owner Nico Russell offers drinks and dishes that make you think, using whatever the season, or the pantry, presents. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/ICVSHDO

How “Elvis” Plays the King

Baz Luhrmann’s film, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, shows a revolutionary musician being absorbed into the mainstream, but does it critique that process or continue it? from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/uMreAPk

The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin

Chin’s killing, forty years ago, has inspired documentaries, television, young-adult books, and countless works of scholarship. What do we want from his story, and the people who tell it? from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/XWvq7Fj

The Resistance of Anarchy Row

While holding out against Eric Adams’s street cleanups, residents of a New York City homeless encampment mourn one of their own, and consider their options. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/5MQK3oH

Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart,” by Deborah Digges, and his own poem “A Spell to Banish Grief.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/eD2Midj

Dancing a Story of Love and Grief

In William Armstrong’s “Unspoken,” the choreographer Paul Lightfoot creates a work that communicates one of the many goodbyes disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/tUyQFOT

Leaked Mark Meadows Texts

“Hey, Mark, I’m sure u have a lot going on and I don’t know on these things but maybe we could do the essplosion from ‘Independence Day?’ Just throwing it out there.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/7fArsMO

The Secret Pictures of Ray Johnson

At the end of his life, the elusive American artist used disposable cameras to take some three thousand pictures, now exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum, in “Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/QdzM6Dq

Intrepid Playfulness at Nudibranch

The East Village restaurant, named for a category of sea slugs, offers an Asian-inflected prix-fixe menu with many choices, including fried frogs’ legs, shrimp with jazzy granola, and cauliflower three ways. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/Hr3UtM6

Alan Alda Is Still Awesome

The actor and director talks about his podcast, the comedic chops of Volodymyr Zelensky, and being called an “honorary woman.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/kAQDC0G

The G.O.P. Heckles the January 6th Show

Last week’s televised hearing showed that there is a great deal that remains unknown to the public—and that Republicans could fill in many of the blank spaces in the record. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/f6pxQPq

The Secret Pictures of Ray Johnson

At the end of his life, the elusive American artist used disposable cameras to take some three thousand pictures, now exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum, in “Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/zaG5xBc

Intrepid Playfulness at Nudibranch

The East Village restaurant, named for a category of sea slugs, offers an Asian-inflected prix-fixe menu with many choices, including fried frogs’ legs, shrimp with jazzy granola, and cauliflower three ways. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/91qtNHO

Jennifer Egan’s Fiction and Visions of the Future

On June 21st, the Pulitzer Prize winner discusses technology, memory, and her latest novel with Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor. The conversation will be part of The New Yorker Live Summer Series, exclusively for subscribers. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/GkclOLq

Racism Outshines Platinum Jubilee

Despite the palace’s best efforts to pretend it wasn’t there, people couldn’t stop marvelling at Racism’s stunning choices over the course of the weekend. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/zls2G8n

The Mail

Letters respond to Maya Jasanoff’s essay about genealogy, Jeannie Suk Gersen’s Comment about the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade, and James Nachtwey’s photo portfolio of Ukraine. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/JNCMHQg

How Wayne Wang Faces Failure

The filmmaker discusses his political and artistic education, the contradictions of being Asian in America, and the importance of “unlearning everything.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/kGtNox5

“Bob’s Burgers” Hits the Big Screen

The animator Loren Bouchard talks about his beleaguered family restaurant—on television and in theatres. Plus, Masha Gessen on the quiet in Kyiv, and Eric Cervini on “The Book of Queer.” from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/TcitmLZ

The Depp-Heard Verdict Is Chilling

Many victims of domestic violence who watched this trial will likely conclude that, if they share their experiences, they will be disbelieved, shamed, and ostracized. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/J8lfTgh

When Cars Kill

A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/u2Gdepm