admin Inside Phoebe Bridgers’s Secret Show at Madison Square Garden
Holden Seidlitz writes that, after shunning the spotlight for years, the singer-songwriter has returned on her own terms—with an intimate…
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It
Cal Newport on some of the ways that artificial intelligence might enhance the human workforce, rather than replace it.
Jack Schlossberg Makes His Case
David Remnick interviews the Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg on why he thinks he should represent New York’s Twelfth Congressional District.
“The Little Sister,” Reviewed: an Intellectual Yet Passionate Coming-Out Drama
Richard Brody reviews “The Little Sister,” directed by Hafsia Herzi and starring Nadia Melliti in her début role.
I Need a Critic: June, 2026, Edition
The hosts recommend art works about entering a new phase of life, what to read while serving in the military,…
Maggie O’Farrell and the Art of Inventing the Past
Katy Waldman on a new book by the Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell, whose book “Hamnet,” from 2020, was adapted…
Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA’s Westerns Series
Also: the third-wave emo of Jimmy Eat World, Jean Genet’s “The Maids” TikTokified, Rachel Syme’s shoe of the summer, and…
What Did “Lady Chatterley” Liberate?
Louis Menand reviews “Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” by Guy Cuthbertson.
The Changing Face of “Authenticity” in Politics
What Graham Platner’s scandal-plagued Senate run says about a tired cliché. Jon Allsop on Platner, Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump, and…
The Iran War and the End of the “Middle East”
Ishaan Tharoor catalogues how, with the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s vision for the Middle East…