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What We’re Reading

Books

Barbra Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs

In “My Name Is Barbra,” the icon takes a maximalist approach to her own life, studying every trial, triumph, and snack food of a six-decade career.
Under Review

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2023 So Far

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

For a Hungry Book Critic, Every Word Is a Feast

In “The Upstairs Delicatessen,” the Times writer Dwight Garner masterfully melds the pleasures of reading and eating.
Under Review

Marie NDiaye’s Drama of Exclusion and Revenge

“Vengeance Is Mine” is a story of class conflict in the guise of a psychological thriller.
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What We’re Eating

The Food Scene

Buy Your Loved Ones a Sequinned Double Cheeseburger: A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide

Kitchen tools, culinary trinkets, tinned treats, dinner-party fixings, and many more curios for the person of appetites in your life.
On and Off the Menu

The Lasting Pleasures of New Haven Pizza

The city’s restaurants inspire pilgrimages and intense loyalties. Can their magic be replicated elsewhere?
The Food Scene

Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz

If you can handle the night-club vibes at Lagos TSQ, you’ll be rewarded with a bold celebration of West African cuisine.
The Food Scene

Bronx Sidewalk Clam Heaven

No trip to Arthur Avenue is complete without a visit to the neighborhood’s duelling streetside shellfish stands, at Cosenza’s Fish Market and Randazzo’s Seafood.

What We’re Watching

On Television

“The Curse” Holds a Mirror Up to Marriage

The new Showtime series, starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, takes aim at everything from reality television to white-liberal virtue signalling—but it works best as the study of an unhappy couple.
The Front Row

A Philosopher-Filmmaker’s Polyphonic Perspective on Trans Experience

In Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Virginia Woolf’s protagonist is played by more than twenty trans and nonbinary actors.
The Current Cinema

“Priscilla” Presents the Echoing Void of Elvis’s Fame

It’s no knock to call Sofia Coppola’s bio-pic, starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, superficial, because surfaces are Coppola’s subject.
The Theatre

High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off Broadway Productions

Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel’s stately “Translations.”

What We’re Listening To

Listening Booth

PinkPantheress Is a Hopeless Romantic

On her new album, “Heaven Knows,” the Gen Z songstress displays a yearning quality that’s surprisingly difficult to locate in today’s splintered, chaotic pop world.
Pop Music

On “Higher,” Chris Stapleton Makes His Case for Love

The country star’s new album is concerned almost exclusively with affairs of the heart—but his gritty, determined voice never sounds sentimental.
Musical Events

Secrets of the East German Oboe Underground

Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust—pieces culled entirely from the vaults of the German Democratic Republic—was a true solo mission.
Listening Booth

Nanci Griffith’s Lone Star State of Mind

The late singer-songwriter rarely felt at home either in her native Texas or in the music industry, but her nostalgic ditties of girlhood captured a potent sense of place.

More Recommendations

Goings On

Pina Bausch’s Enduring “The Rite of Spring”

Also: Nutcrackers galore, Allison Russell, a Hart Island podcast, and more.
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The Splendid Notebooks of Picasso

Also: “The Curse,” Bob Dylan, Spike Lee, and more.
The Food Scene

Killer Carbonara, Straight from the Source

The New York outpost of the legendary Roman culinary institution Roscioli offers a two-in-one destination for Italian wine and exceptional pastas.
Goings On

Goings On: Sampha’s Ornate Neo-Soul

Also: Sondheim’s final musical, “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” at the Met Opera, Henry Taylor’s rich portraits, and more.
The Food Scene

José Andrés Puts On a Show

The Bazaar, the latest New York restaurant from the chef and humanitarian, tends to foreground spectacle over satiety.
Goings On

Spooky Season Is Here

Also: “Twin Flames” documentaries, the annual Halloween Parade, Jorja Smith, and more.