{"id":377,"date":"2026-06-05T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:35:56","slug":"i-need-a-critic-june-2026-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"I Need a Critic: June, 2026, Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Download a transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>Listen and subscribe:<\/em> Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz kick off the summer months with a new installment of the Critics at Large advice series. Listeners\u2019 questions run the gamut: a high-school economics teacher seeks films for his students which <em>aren\u2019t<\/em> set in the world of finance; a caller from Iran looks for cultural works to help endure periods of extreme uncertainty; and two friends on the cusp of college graduation ask for recommendations to guide them in their next chapter. \u201cArt is not a thing separate from our troubles or from our awareness of the insane contingencies of life,\u201d Cunningham says. \u201cIt\u2019s meant as a companion and a response to those. I think that\u2019s shining through in some of these questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=376\">Maggie O\u2019Farrell and the Art of Inventing the Past<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read, watch, and listen with the critics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry to Bother You\u201d (2018)<br \/>\u201cMy Architect: A Son\u2019s Journey\u201d (2003)<br \/>\u201cLes dites cariatides\u201d (1984)<br \/>\u201cTwenty Minutes in Manhattan,\u201d by Michael Sorkin<br \/>The photography of Eug\u00e8ne Atget<br \/>The music of the Notorious B.I.G., Heavy D, Fat Joe, and Big Pun<br \/>\u201cSentimental Education,\u201d by Gustave Flaubert<br \/>V\u00e1clav Havel\u2019s \u201cAudience\u201d<br \/>\u201cThe Best of Everything,\u201d by Rona Jaffe<br \/>\u201cHow to Murder Your Life,\u201d by Cat Marnell<br \/>\u201cBecoming a Centenarian,\u201d by Calvin Tomkins (<em>The New Yorker<\/em>)<br \/>\u201cThis Old Man,\u201d by Roger Angell (<em>The New Yorker<\/em>)<br \/>\u201cTabula Rasa,\u201d by John McPhee (<em>The New Yorker<\/em>)<br \/>\u201cKramer vs. Kramer\u201d (1979)<br \/>\u201cDivorcing,\u201d by Susan Taubes<br \/>Elena Ferrante\u2019s Neapolitan novels<br \/>\u201cGhost World,\u201d by Daniel Clowes<br \/>\u201cFrances Ha\u201d (2012)<br \/>\u201cAsparagus\u201d (1979)<br \/>Roger Payne\u2019s \u201cSongs of the Humpback Whale\u201d<br \/>\u201cRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction,\u201d by J.\u00a0D. Salinger<br \/>The poetry of Sylvia Plath, particularly \u201cTulips\u201d<br \/>Tony Kushner\u2019s \u201cAngels in America\u201d<br \/>\u201cI Will,\u201d by the Beatles<br \/>\u201cSt. Judy\u2019s Comet,\u201d by Paul Simon<br \/>\u201cSail Away Ladies,\u201d by Odetta<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=374\">Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA\u2019s Westerns Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=372\">What Did \u201cLady Chatterley\u201d Liberate?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hosts recommend art works about entering a new phase of life, what to read while serving in the military, and the best songs for lulling a baby to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critics-at-large"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I Need a Critic: June, 2026, Edition - City Relocation News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=377\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Need a Critic: June, 2026, Edition - 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