Goings On

The scholar and literary critic examines a relationship dynamic that has inspired some of the most significant, and provocative, novels of the past three centuries.

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself.

The French author’s award-winning memoir, “Sad Tiger,” is a richly literary and starkly shattering account of childhood sexual abuse.

The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his native Sweden that are making their English débuts this year.

A new restaurant from the team behind Dame and Lord’s doesn’t so much enter the seafood conversation as elegantly commandeer it.

In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a phenomenon.

Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.

The ne plus ultra of expense-account dining is making a comeback, with help from the indefatigable French chef Daniel Boulud.

What’s most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction.

The parents who exploit their kids for clicks in Netflix’s “Bad Influence” want you to think they couldn’t have known better.

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate.

The first piece Kael wrote for The New Yorker, “Movies on Television,” suggests why she remains a vexing influence in cinema more than a half century later.

Nine years after retiring his alter ego, Pat the Bunny, Patrick Schneeweis is ready to sing again.

Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.