Goings On
What to watch, listen to, and do in New York City, online, and beyond.
Goings On
The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more.
By Richard Brody, Michael Schulman, Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Brian Seibert, K. Leander Williams, Jane Bua, and Adam Gopnik

What We’re Reading
Book Currents
Renzo Piano’s Light Touch
The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of weightlessness.
Under Review
What America Means to Latin Americans
In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.
By Geraldo Cadava
Under Review
The Best Books We Read This Week
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By The New Yorker
Book Currents
Clare Carlisle and the Genre-Bender
The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.

Goings On
Winter Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in art, music, theatre, dance, movies, and television.
What We’re Eating
On and Off the Menu
The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
A great number of Americans wish to optimize their diets—and their lives.
By Hannah Goldfield
The Food Scene
Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak
At Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A.
The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.
By Helen Rosner
The Food Scene
Crevette Makes Great Seafood Look Easy
A new restaurant from the team behind Dame and Lord’s doesn’t so much enter the seafood conversation as elegantly commandeer it.
By Helen Rosner
What We’re Watching
The Front Row
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975 and the political creativity and enduring cost of the rescue.
By Richard Brody
On Television
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here?
By Inkoo Kang
The Front Row
“Invention” Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era
In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and paranoia.
By Richard Brody
The Theatre
London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory
New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more.
By Helen Shaw
Goings On
Celebrating the Holidays in N.Y.C.
Favorite traditions light up the season, including “Messiah”s, “Nutcracker”s, Scrooge, James Joyce, the Rockettes, and more.
What We’re Listening To
Musical Events
Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself
Fresh New York stagings of “The Threepenny Opera” and “Love Life” show off the composer’s daring and range.
By Alex Ross
Pop Music
The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Nine years after retiring his alter ego, Pat the Bunny, Patrick Schneeweis is ready to sing again.
By Kelefa Sanneh
Musical Events
Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits
Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.
By Alex Ross
Podcast
The Show That Finds the Intrigue Lurking in the Everyday
“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.
By Sarah Larson
More Recommendations
Goings On
The Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway
Also: Whitney White in “Macbeth in Stride,” Ani DiFranco’s dramatic return, Takeshi Kitano’s inventive new film, and more.
By Helen Shaw, Dan Stahl, Sheldon Pearce, Marina Harss, Michael Schulman, Richard Brody, Jane Bua, and Jennifer Wilson
Book Currents
Merve Emre Ventures Into the Age Gap
The scholar and literary critic examines a relationship dynamic that has inspired some of the most significant, and provocative, novels of the past three centuries.
Goings On
The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem
Also: Rachel Syme on the latest in charms, the Chicago rapper Saba, turtle races in Bed-Stuy, Caspar David Friedrich paired with Schumann, and more.
By Marina Harss, Sheldon Pearce, Jane Bua, Vince Aletti, Helen Shaw, Richard Brody, Inkoo Kang, Taran Dugal, and Rachel Syme
Book Currents
Fredrik Backman on the Art of Scandinavian Storytelling
The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his native Sweden that are making their English débuts this year.
Goings On
Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks
Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness,” and more.
By Richard Brody, Helen Shaw, Marina Harss, Sheldon Pearce, Dan Stahl, Jane Bua, and Rachel Syme
Book Currents
Women Who Made Amanda Seyfried Feel Less Alone
The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress discusses four books that examine some of the struggles that come with being a daughter, wife, and mother.
The Food Scene
Helen, Help Me: Should I Be Cooking with Ostrich Eggs?
Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.
By Helen Rosner
Goings On
What to Watch That Isn’t “The White Lotus”
Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.
By Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Jane Bua, Vince Aletti, Brian Seibert, Richard Brody, and Inkoo Kang