The Best TV Shows in a Bad Year
How much TV does our TV critic watch? Inkoo Kang reveals how she picks her favorites of the…
Yo-Yo Ma on What Our Descendants Will Inherit
Earlier this month, the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma turned seventy—an occasion that led him to reflect on not…
Kate DiCamillo on the Solace of Fairy Tales
When the children’s author Kate DiCamillo was a girl, she would listen over and over to a record…
Exploring the Intricacies of Memory with Ada Limón
The poet Ada Limón—whose latest collection, “Startlement,” went on sale this week—recently bought and moved back into her…
The Mother as Antihero | The New Yorker
Sasha Bonét’s matrilineal memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother: powerful, complicated women whose…
Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound”
In Oliver Hermanus’s new film, “The History of Sound,” two young men at the New England Conservatory of…
Mark Hamill’s All-Time Favorite Books by Stephen King
In the past year, the actor Mark Hamill—best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars”…