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Before last month’s midterm election, progressives—and centrists, and socialists, and anyone, really, who thought that it was a bad idea to put election deniers in charge of state elections—braced for a red wave.
Talk Therapy
Sarah Polley, a former child star, has made a searingly frank film about sexual assault.
Consuming Passions
“The Fabelmans” and “Bones and All.”
Goings on About Town
In 1949, the writer Adrienne Kennedy, now ninety-one, enrolled at Ohio State University, where she became enamored with “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” but, as one of only a few Black female students, was stung by racism within the institution. She revisited this time in her 1992 one-act “Ohio State Murders.” The play’s Broadway première is now in previews, starring the theatrical luminary Audra McDonald (above). Kenny Leon’s production marks Kennedy’s Broadway début, and the first show at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.
A Dangerous Game
China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it?
ROYAL DESCENT
Season 5 of The Crown,” on Netflix.
ALL FOR ONE
Quiara Alegria Hudes reinvents her memoir in My Broken Language.
THE SHOCK OF THE OLD
Kristian Bezuidenhout releases the subtle power of the fortepiano.
DEADWOOD
An American’s brutal apprenticeship in the delicate art of bonsai.
THE PRICE OF POWER
For decades, J. Edgar Hoover was the man America trusted.
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
LYRICS FROM TAYLOR SWIFT'S FUTURE MIDNIGHTS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
MEMORY SERVES
How Annie Ernaux turns the past into art.
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.
A Critic at Large the Never-Ending Story
Can the multiverse keep expanding forever?
Suzuki Method – No Strings Attached
What the Suzuki method really taught.
Everything Nice
The boundless optimism of the Spice Girls.
A Reporter at Large End of the Road
In Americas bike-racing community, a murder exposes a lot of dirt.
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
Content Warning
THIS PRODUCTION contains strobe lights, loud noises, and haze.
Emma Thompson – Acting Up
Emma Thompsons third act.
A Reporter at Large a Reckoning
At a dangerous time in Iran, the celebrated director Asghar Farhadi is on trial for using a student’s ideas.
PAST IMPERFECT
A new translation grapples with sexual violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
ON NATIVE GROUNDS
For much of American history, the tribal nations were on top.
THEY SHOOT, HE SCORES
How Carter Burwell writes film music that keeps audiences guessing.
SORRY SPECTACLE
The case against the Twitter apology.
THE NEW YORKER
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Steven Spielberg, Trans History, Action Sequels
Filmmakers’ real-life stories are fictionalized in some noteworthy new movies, including “The Inspection” (Nov. 18), written and directed by Elegance Bratton.
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.