Goings On

The author of “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” discusses the rewards of reading laborious novels.

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.

During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.

Two beloved pop-ups have opened brick-and-mortar spots on the Lower East Side, one from Sunny Lee, of Banchan by Sunny, the other from the team behind Ha’s Đặc Biệt.

The Honolulu-based franchise specializes in simple meals that stick to the ribs.

After wildfires displaced thousands of Angelenos, a patchwork of cooks, restaurateurs, and volunteers have operated something like a citywide meal train.

This historical docufiction, directed by Lou Ye, boldly dramatizes the outbreak of *COVID*{: .small} in China by way of its impact on a movie shoot.

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.

Bruno Dumont’s action-fantasy satire is all the greater for its loving, quasi-documentary attention to ordinary life.

In its second season, the show continues to indict the corporate workplace while secretly longing for it.

Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

Monday Evening Concerts has showcased living composers for eight decades.