In theory we don’t play favorites among the books we recommend here — we love all our children equally, there’s something for everyone, et cetera — but indulge me this week in my particular affection for Maria Zoccola’s nifty debut poetry collection, “Helen of Troy, 1993.” By transferring the basic outlines of Helen’s story to … Read more
“If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.” That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in “Famehungry,” a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an entertainer in the digital age. Presented before a live crowd, it is also simultaneously livestreamed on the app. In Wednesday’s show, Orwin performed tasks inspired … Read more
“Lovers Anonymous” is an eight-episode Turkish dramedy about the “disease of love” — treatable at the Love Hospital, thank goodness, under the dedicated care of specialists. Though perhaps the cure isn’t all that wonderful. The show (in Turkish, with subtitles, or dubbed), available on Netflix, centers on Cem (Halit Ergenc), the embittered genius behind the … Read more
The movie trailer hit heavy rotation on N.F.L. playoff broadcasts and elsewhere earlier this month. A pilot played by Mark Wahlberg is flying a federal agent and a government witness in a tiny airplane. But the pilot, it seems, is actually a hit man sent to kill the witness. Chaos ensues. “You don’t watch it,” … Read more
The Tchaikovsky showcased the formidable discipline of the Chicago sound under Muti, with the orchestra’s famous brass section gleaming in the fearsome fanfares that function as the fate motif anchoring the symphony. Here, too, Muti’s attention often went to subsidiary voices. In a transitional moment during the first movement, he brought the chugging rhythmic figures … Read more
The ballerina Ashley Bouder will retire next month after a 25-year career with New York City Ballet, including 20 years as a principal dancer, the company announced on Wednesday. “It’s a little surreal,” Bouder said in an interview. “I’m kind of up and down about it. I’m excited to do it, and to see what … Read more
With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir. Source link
The Met Cloisters were alive with the sound of music on a frigid January afternoon. Six nuns in white surrounded a seventh dressed in black, and all were singing. The scene was beautifully formal but it also felt organic, as if the women had been there for centuries. Watching a rehearsal of Magos Herrera and … Read more
Leo Woodall is the first to admit that he doesn’t know a lot about math. In the new mini-series “Prime Target,” streaming on Apple TV+, the 28-year-old British actor stars as Edward Brooks, a graduate student in mathematics at Cambridge whose visionary work places him in the cross hairs of a shadowy government agency. When … Read more
EVERYTHING MUST GO: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, by Dorian Lynskey When it comes to make-believe disasters, our appetite is endless; yet we’re loath to anticipate real-world disasters until it is too late. It’s a discrepancy that Dorian Lynskey explores in “Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the … Read more