Browsing: Culture Desk

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.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey adaptation faces “woke-ifying” accusations. But translation has always been interpretation — and Homer was never simple.

Writing a thousand words a day won’t fix being trapped in a submarine for 18 months. But it might be the only advice that still works down there.

In 1990, Wilson Phillips released “Hold On” — a song of radical sincerity from the daughters of rock legends that disarmed teenage cynics everywhere.

Ross McElwee’s documentary Remake confronts the death of his son Adrian, a longtime subject of his films, and the ethics of that archive.