Recommendations
Page-Turner
What We’re Reading This Summer
New Yorker writers recommend books featuring a sixteenth-century tennis match, old Hollywood, a society wedding gone wrong, and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Page-Turner
What We’re Reading This Summer
New Yorker writers recommend books featuring a nineteenth-century love triangle, trans zombie hunters, revelry with the Rolling Stones, and more.
Shouts & Murmurs
A Letter of Romantic Recommendation
I hope that you can recognize Alan Worth as a special applicant. Dating him—like an earthquake—is impossible to forget.
Shouts & Murmurs
Wirecutter: The Best Partner
Page-Turner
Introducing “Books for the Midnight Hour”: What We Read When the World Gets Dark
A video series, by passionate readers, about what literature can say and do.
The Front Row
Five Movies About Royals to Compete with “The Crown”
Royalty gives rise to artistic revelations, and movies about monarchs are an international counterpart to the American Western, an inescapably and essentially political genre.
The Front Row
The Best Horror Movies for Halloween—Without the Gore
These ten films suggest the extremes of experience that are evoked by the very effort to explore the supernatural, the haunted, the tormented, the dreadful, both outward and within.
The Front Row
What to Read and Stream: The Remarkable Out-of-Print Book That Inspired “42nd Street”
The novel, by Bradford Ropes and published in 1932, reads less like fiction than like a documentary about the lives of New York’s theatre people.
On Television
On Loving “Terrace House” Now More Than Ever
As the coronavirus takes its toll, the show’s amiability, the casual jaunts of its housemates, and its overarching emphasis on communion take on a peculiar new dimension.
The Front Row
What to Stream: Three Online Releases of Movies That Would Have Come to Theatres
Two new releases and one revival—“Selah and the Spades,” “To the Stars,” and “Down and Out in America”—provide rich streaming options.
Crossword
New Yorker Crossword Constructors on the Best Games to Play While Social-Distancing
Our puzzle experts recommend their current favorite quarantine diversions.
Culture Desk
Quarantine Culture Recommendations: “The Cat in the Hat,” Ambient Electronica, and Tolstoy
New Yorker writers suggest what to read, watch, and listen to in a time of social distancing.
The Front Row
What to Stream: Forty of the Best Movies on Netflix Right Now
A surprising number of the movies that I’ve most esteemed in recent years—and even a handful of venerable classics—are available to stream.
Culture Desk
Quarantine Culture Recommendations: “Troop Beverly Hills,” Japanese Industrial Music, and Jah9
New Yorker writers suggest what to read, watch, and listen to at home.
The Front Row
What to Stream: A Documentary About a Failed Stephen Sondheim Production
“Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened” is a moving combination of a backstage musical documentary and a first-person story of youthful dreams.
The Front Row
What to Stream: Blake Edwards’s Masterwork Documentary of His Wife, Julie Andrews
“Julie,” from 1972, is both intimate and glamorous, personal and radiantly cinematic.
Culture Desk
Quarantine Culture Recommendations: Knitting, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” and Melvyn Bragg
New Yorker writers suggest what to read, watch, and listen to in a time of quarantine.
Culture Desk
Quarantine Culture Recommendations: Thomas Mann, “The Wedding Party,” and Tracy Chapman
New Yorker writers suggest what to read, watch, and listen to in a time of social distancing.
Culture Desk
Stealth Kids’ Movies for the Era of Quarantine
A list of movies that are kid-friendly by happenstance rather than by design, including “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Popeye,” and more.
Culture Desk
Music to Endure the Coronavirus Quarantine
What A$AP Ferg, Soccer Mommy, Maggie Rogers, and other musicians have been turning to for inspiration.