Goings On

The author of “The Second Coming” and “City on Fire” selects recommendations from the great American writer’s sprawling body of work.

The world might love to hate financiers, but the worlds of hedge funds, venture capital, and central banking can be filled with thrilling ideas and human dramas.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter.

A food critic’s favorite menu items from a year of dining out.

When it comes to the Italian holiday loaf, there’s magnificence and there’s stultifying disappointment, with little in between.

Andrew Tarlow is known for Brooklyn spots with low lighting, tattooed servers, and hunks of meat. Now, across the East River for the first time, he shifts the vibe toward stately elegance.

As the city has welcomed more immigrants from Nigeria and neighboring countries, the local restaurant landscape has flourished.

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to greatness was.

The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.

The director has long shunned the spotlight, but his work conveys the force of a mighty personality. A new biography offers a rare look at his life and work.

Brady Corbet’s epic takes on weighty themes, but fails to infuse its characters with the stuff of life.

The year’s breakthrough music moments included a Taylor Swift comeback, an unexpected Internet-rap collab, and an absurdist sample of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

The musicians possess a powerful collective personality, creating an organic mass of sound.

The eighty-minute suite “All Life Long” is slow, hushed, and gnawingly beautiful, but it does not supply conventional musical comforts.

Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.