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The Director NAISPERER

Judith Weston advises filmmakers on how to coax great performances out of every actor By Joy Press

INCIDENT TO SERVICE

For more than 70 years, an obscure legal doctrine has prevented active-duty service members from suing the federal government for wrongful injury or death occurring outside of combat. Jurists left and right have long lamented the decision and begged for Congress to act. So why is justice that's available to every American civilian still being denied those who serve our nation?

Moving THE NEEDLE

Originally marketed for diabetics, an insulin-regulating drug whose side effect is dramatic weight loss is now the It drug for the thin set

SARGENT'S ORDERS

ON THE THURSDAY after Labor Day, the Gagosian gallery helda dinner at Altro Paradiso, a haute pasta spot in New York’s SoHo. Each year that September evening is a rite of passage in the art world. The Chelsea galleries throw open their doors to the big fall shows, the public floods the blocks between 10th and 11th Avenues, and a select few get invited to dinners to celebrate it all, with cocktails flowing late into the evening.

The FIREBRAND

SCOTUS is ina right-wing choke hold, but a liberal conservationist judge blazed the activism trail By Dougtas Brinkley

Party STARTER

Known for mixing elegance with the absurd, food artist LAILA GOHAR dips into beauty

The Spectacular Life of Octavia E.Butler

In recent years, the author has been hailed as prescient of our political moment. This is the story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.

THE SHOCK OF THE OLD

Kristian Bezuidenhout releases the subtle power of the fortepiano.

THE PRICE OF POWER

For decades, J. Edgar Hoover was the man America trusted.

DEADWOOD

An American’s brutal apprenticeship in the delicate art of bonsai.

LYRICS FROM TAYLOR SWIFT'S FUTURE MIDNIGHTS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

HINGES GRAHAM SWIFT

One morning in April, their father, Ted Holroyd, suddenly died and a few days afterward Annie and her older brother, Ian, both still a little dazed, went to see the minister who, as Annie put it, was going to do” their father’s funeral.

S&P Lunch 174 Fifth Ave.

TABLES FOR TWO

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the prospects of Trumpism; fashion tips from the G.O.P.; offstage with Interpol; Nan Goldin has the power; turkey any way you want it.

MEMORY SERVES

How Annie Ernaux turns the past into art.

ROYAL DESCENT

Season 5 of The Crown,” on Netflix.

ALL FOR ONE

Quiara Alegria Hudes reinvents her memoir in My Broken Language.

Everything Nice

The boundless optimism of the Spice Girls.

Suzuki Method – No Strings Attached

What the Suzuki method really taught.

Returns – Annie Ernaux

The last time I saw my mother at her home, it was July, a Sunday. I travelled there by train. At Motteville, we sat in the station for a long time. It was hot. It was quiet, both in the compartment and outside.

Emma Thompson – Acting Up

Emma Thompsons third act.

Content Warning

THIS PRODUCTION contains strobe lights, loud noises, and haze.

LCD Soundsystem, Orchestral B.I.G.

Barring an intrusion from you-know what, the imminent cold-weather concert season should recover much of its pre-pandemic fastball, as musicians fan out across stages big and small

Nikyatu Jusu's Fables

The director of Nanny, this year's most acclaimed film at Sundance, blends West African folklore and horror.

THE NEW YORKER

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ailey, Dorrance Dance, Ratmansky’s Voices”

The emo, electronics-heavy music of the nineteen-eighties British New Wave band Tears for Fears is the unlikely—but oddly compelling—basis for “LOVETRAIN2020,”

Artful Science, Mayan Gods, Senga Nengudi

The Chicago-based phenom Nick Cave is best known for his “Soundsuits,” elaborate wearable assemblages that dazzle whether they’re presented as sculptures or seen in motion during performances.

SORRY SPECTACLE

The case against the Twitter apology.

Fleishman 1S in Trouble

“Sweeney Todd,” “Camelot,” Basquiat x Warhol It’s been a year since Stephen Sondheim died and, not surprisingly, his œuvre is getting a hefty workout.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

“Thierry Mugler: Couturissime,” opening at the Brooklyn Museum on Nov. 18, celebrates the career of the provocative French designer, who counted Grace Jones, Tippi Hedren, Lypsinka, Ivana Trump, and Cardi B among his muses.