Browsing: Culture Desk
Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest tracks four middle-class men on a careless rural spree, revealing India’s class wounds with quiet fury.
Kai Bird’s new book “American Scoundrel” examines Roy Cohn’s McCarthy-era tactics, a sex-trafficking allegation, and his direct influence on Donald Trump.
At 21, Alex Eala is the best tennis player Southeast Asia has ever produced. Now she’s gunning for her first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open.
Alex Ullom’s *It Ends* joins a growing wave of Gen Z horror directors translating generational anxiety into cinema — and reshaping the genre in the process.
Retired IDF colonel Doron Meiner was arrested while shielding a Palestinian village from settlers. His account reveals the gap between stated IDF roles and West Bank reality.
Sean Duffy, Trump’s Transportation Secretary and former reality TV personality, has released a six-part YouTube road trip series. Here’s what to make of it.
Emily Nussbaum calls the Canadian Shakespeare festival series Slings & Arrows her all-time favorite show on The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.
Anthropic is making it easier to detect Claude-generated text, giving the social stigma around AI writing a more formal mechanism to work with.
Rachel Bell, content director for NYC dispensary Gotham, visits the Guggenheim stoned for her video series Hi, I’m High — and leaves with sculpture opinions.
After failing to cut legal aid funding outright, the Trump administration is routing migrant children’s cases to organizations without immigration expertise or capacity.