Goings On
What to watch, listen to, and do in New York City, online, and beyond.
Goings On
Noche Flamenca, in Its Natural Habitat
Also: the hard-won rock of DIIV, “Job” on Broadway, Justin Chang’s disaster-movie picks, and more.
What We’re Reading
Under Review
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By The New Yorker
Under Review
Are You an Artist?
The creative life is shrouded in mystery. Two new books try to discover what it takes.
By Alexandra Schwartz
Under Review
The Paradoxical Paradise of the Garden
Olivia Laing’s memoir of restoring a garden unearths the politics and history of cultivating a plot.
By Katie Kadue
Page-Turner
The Agonies of Intimacy
Two new graphic books by Charles Burns capture the pleasures and discomforts of human connection and self-expression.
By Charles Burns
Goings On
Summer Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in art, theatre, music, dance, and movies.
What We’re Eating
The Food Scene
Strange Delight Channels New Orleans in All the Right Ways
The new seafood restaurant in Fort Greene treats the Crescent City with subtlety and studiousness, without sacrificing any fun.
By Helen Rosner
Tables for Two
Stracciatella Dreams, at Caffè Panna
Hallie Meyer’s gelato project expands from Union Square to Greenpoint, offering bounteous daily flavors topped with luscious imported Italian cream.
By Shauna Lyon
On and Off the Menu
Tea and Beachside High Jinks in Provincetown
The town’s restaurants evince a singular mix of gay utopia and New England kitsch.
By Hannah Goldfield
The Food Scene
A Brooklyn Tasting Menu with Manhattan Ambition
Clover Hill offers the kind of technique-oriented cooking that usually emerges from the city’s billionaire canteens—and prices to match.
By Helen Rosner
What We’re Watching
On Television
“House of the Dragon” Still Hasn’t Caught Fire
The HBO show’s latest season finale reaffirms Rhaenyra’s right to rule—but her mode of noble restraint, however admirable in a leader, is lethal in a protagonist.
By Inkoo Kang
The Front Row
The Macabre Ironies of “Trap”
Lurking beneath M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller are the commonplace horrors of family life.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
“Out of Anger”: Listening to Elizabeth Taylor
A new documentary based on 1964 interviews lays bare the gap between private self and public image.
By Richard Brody
On Television
Jake Gyllenhaal, and His Eyebrows, on Trial in “Presumed Innocent”
Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard also star in this adaptation of the 1987 Scott Turow novel.
By Vinson Cunningham
What We’re Listening To
Musical Events
Two Centuries Later, a Female Composer Is Rediscovered
Carolina Uccelli’s opera “Anna di Resburgo” was remarkably inventive—but it vanished after its première. Teatro Nuovo has brought it back to life.
By Alex Ross
Musical Events
An Opera About John Singer Sargent and a Male Model
Damien Geter’s “American Apollo,” at Des Moines Metro Opera, along with revivals of Debussy and Strauss.
By Alex Ross
Pop Music
Clairo Believes in Charm as an Aesthetic and Spiritual Principle
The artist discusses her new album, moving upstate, and the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.
By Amanda Petrusich
More Recommendations
Goings On
Broadway’s Sorbet: Sutton Foster in “Once Upon a Mattress”
Also: Missy Elliott’s first solo headlining tour, a Claire Denis masterwork, Diamond Stingily’s evolving art, and more.
Goings On
Hilton Als on Nora Burns’s Memory Play “David’s Friend”
Also: the mysterious folksinger Jessica Pratt, “Le Prophète” at Bard SummerScape, Molly Fischer’s book picks for new parents, and more.
Goings On
Tadáskía’s Awe-Inspiring Art, at MOMA
Also: Dorrance Dance, “From Here,” Charley Crockett, and more.
Goings On
Jackson Arn’s Summer Public-Art Picks
Alfresco works by Huma Bhabha, Suchitra Mattai, and Cj Hendry.
The Food Scene
The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly Fine
Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be.
By Helen Rosner
Goings On
A Little Bit of Everything at Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City”
Also: Nancy Pelosi vs. A.O.C. in “N/A,” the observant folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer,” and more.
Goings On
South Africa Mirrors the American West in “Dark Noon”
Also: Cynthia Erivo sings Sondheim, “The Bikeriders” reviewed, the still-lifes of Laura Letinsky, and more.
The Food Scene
One Weird Night at Frog Club
If a self-consciously clubby restaurant suddenly becomes easy to get into, what’s the point of going at all?
By Helen Rosner