Books & Culture

Family time under the umbrella.

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signalled rampant criminality; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.

“Positive Obsession,” “Everything Evolves,” “Pariah,” and “Bonding.”

Kinga, the protagonist of “A New New Me,” has an odd affliction: there are seven of her.

Farley’s, in Bed-Stuy, lavishes attention on an unsung icon of Americana cooking.

In this year’s offerings, the mood ranged from baffled sorrow to laughter in extremis, reflecting our unsettled times.

The force of low self-esteem can feel so enormous, so unexplainable, it seems almost mythic.

The album’s frantic, unruly nature aims to communicate the madness of living with big feelings—emotions that are difficult to process and to hold to the light.

Denzel Washington stars as a music executive who takes police matters into his own hands, in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping classic.

What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this fall.