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“Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property Loss
“It was a piece of heaven,” Agnes Marshall Blackwell says about the house she grew up in, situated in Morganza, Maryland. She recalls a little white house, surrounded by...
Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box.Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,”...
Do You Have Hope?
Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people...
A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio
Like those iconic works, “New Paris” conjures a small society all its own. It is a world of mothers, sisters, grandfathers, cousins, and neighbors looking at us, away from...
“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it. The two genres converge to startling effect...
A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
E pluribus unum might be the proper political aspiration for a large and multifarious country, but when it comes to the novel people tend to applaud something closer to...
The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
The venue was the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Duggal Greenhouse, all thirty-five thousand square feet of it. Hillary and Bernie debated here in 2016. The building used to be a...
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast.Genres tend to...
Scene and Substance at New York’s Newest Hot Spot
Bridges is situated in Chinatown, in the former home of Hop Shing, a restaurant that served affordable, no-frills Guangdong-style dim sum from 1973 until it shuttered during the early...
Haruki Murakami on Rethinking Early Work
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” is also a return to earlier works: a novella he published in Japan, in 1980, when he was thirty-one,...
