Goings On

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

The director of the Studio Museum chooses some of her most beloved books about the neighborhood—both as a place and as an anchor for Black cultural consciousness.

Two recent books follow young religious converts down the winding back roads of belief.

Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village where U.S. soldiers train.

Our restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items from a year of eating out.

The city has vaunted sourdough loaves and endlessly hyped croissants. Diljān, in Brooklyn Heights, brings a classic Afghan flatbread into the mix.

Under the chef Mark Ladner, the famous Greenwich Village trattoria aims for selective nostalgia.

Our staff expert recommends a collection of grinders, kettles, and other devices worth poring over.

Jim Jarmusch’s three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children’s relationships with their parents.

Rachel Sennott, the HBO series’ creator and star, may be a relative newcomer to Los Angeles, but she’s a native of the show’s true setting: the internet.

It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.

June Squibb sparkles opposite Cynthia Nixon in a futuristic drama, and Michelle Williams loses her way in Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winner.

Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues.

A list of songs I loved in 2025.

Critics love to make these kinds of breathless pronouncements. But with this band, currently on tour to promote its album “Getting Killed,” controlled hysteria is sort of the point.

Francisco Coll gives Ibsen’s drama a stem-winder of a score.