Browsing: Culture Desk

Jordan Harper’s “A Violent Masterpiece” flips noir’s core pessimism, raising real questions about hope, the Epstein era, and what the genre can argue.

Eric Wareheim turned post-divorce plant collecting into a real business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler among his clients.

A Spanish firefighter’s warning about fires exceeding all response capacity points to a European crisis built from drought, heat, and decades of neglect.

Elizabeth Meriwether’s Hulu series “Furious” follows a female killer targeting an abuse network — brutal, funny, and harder to dismiss than its premise suggests.

Bari Weiss applies 60 Minutes-style balance to Lake Mead’s position relative to the Hoover Dam. The results are geographically ambitious.

Gregg Araki’s new film stars Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville. He tells The New Yorker that heartbreak and confusion are worth having.

Emily Eakin’s new book recovers the human lives behind French theory’s forbidding reputation, reviewed in The New Yorker August 2026.

Arizona Republicans are selecting a nominee to face Democratic incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs, while a congressional primary fractures over sexual impropriety allegations.

Florentina Holzinger’s extreme body-based performances have made audiences faint and vomit. At the Venice Biennale, the same uncompromising work made her a star.

Trump promised “really, really big news” before his prime-time election-fraud speech. The declassified, heavily redacted documents he delivered drew immediate comparisons to Pam Bondi’s Epstein binders.