CATEGORIES

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Joyce Carol Oates's relentless search for a self.

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

\"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,\" \"Scene Partners,\" and \"Waiting for Godot.\"

GHOST, WRITER

When a friend died, she left behind a novel that needed finishing.

BIG LOVE

Chris Stapleton's case for affairs of the heart.

It's So Easy to Be Wrong

In Lexi Freiman’s latest novel, a writer gets canceled— and decides to lean all the way in.

Artists and Collectors Turn on Each Other

The Artforum letter was just the start.

Fiction – According to Alice

My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy’s butt. My mommy’s name is Alice. My mommy’s mommy was also named Alice.

The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes

People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?

A Critic at Large – Made You Look

The desert illusions of the Sphere and "City.”

REALITY BITES

“The Curse,” on Showtime.

GOINGS ON NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2023

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lagos TSQ_ 727 Seventh Ave.

IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES

Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?

INFINITE ART

The artist Holly Herndon prepares for a world shaped by ALL.

THE WAR ON CHAPLIN

Why the Tramp had to be brought low.

THE THEATRE THE HUMAN COMEDY

Off Of Broadway serves up FOOD,” Redwood,” and Faust.”

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster.

METAMORPHOSIS

The godfather of A.I. thinks it’s actually intelligent—and that scares him.

DEAR PARENTS

Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation.

WILD REEDS

James Austin Smith proves that an oboist can have an adventurous solo career.

BEGIN END

A coder on the waning days of the craft.

NAPOLEON COMPLEX

Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?

Our Time Is Up Clare Sestanovich

The mirrors reveal when it’s time to clean again. A thin layer of dust on the one in the bed room, toothpaste and fingerprints on the one in the bathroom, which doubles as a cabinet door. All the windows become mirrors at the end of the day, when it takes a subtle adjustment of the eyes to look through yourself instead of at yourself. But the windows will never be cleaned; the most that can be hoped for is a hard, purifying rain. There’s a yellow streak of bird shit on the glass in the living room, crusted over now, and the kitchen window still bears the ghostly pattern that Angela once traced on the fogged-up surface while waiting for something on the stove, she can no longer remember what: a pot to boil, a formless egg to acquire edges and turn opaque, a single drop of oil to escape its pan and scald her out of her thoughts.

THE CURRENT CINEMA MAN DOWN

\"Priscilla\" and \"Dream Scenario.\"

CARLOS GOFFMÁN, (EL GUAPO) FACT CHECKER

During a period of incarceration scheduled to last fifty years to life, Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, the former drug lord, has started a new career as a fact checker and researcher to earn cigarette money in prison. Authorities have looked the other way at Goffmán’s nonobservance of the rule against inmate cell-phone use, but have recorded his end of the calls.

COPING MECHANISMS

Philip Roth's \"Sabbath's Theater\" adapted for the stage, and \"I Need That.\"

MAKE ME

Is free will an illusion? You decide.

TRYSTS TROPIQUES

The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"

DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.

THE ORGANIZER

How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.