WHEN WE SEE YOU AGAIN, by Rachel Goldberg-Polin He was a vegetarian who ate no greens or fruits, preferring beige meals. At 13, he recognized the dishwasher, racks eliminated, as a spot the place one might disguise a small refugee. He picked his pimples and had smelly armpits. When he kissed his dad and mom…
How to Be Cultured Menu 1. Greatest onscreen performance? “Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954). He’s so calm, and he speaks the way he’d speak in real life, kind of mumbling. Paul Newman, too, in ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967). These men were almost father figures for me. I observed them in the absence of…
No single determine casts a shadow throughout the N.B.A.’s almost 80 years of existence fairly like Jerry West. West, who died in 2024 at 86, elevated the league throughout its wobbly would-it-survive-or-not early days when his Los Angeles Lakers misplaced championships considerably yearly to the Boston Celtics. Then he was the architect behind the storied…
One might imagine that jokes about slavery would be off the table in 2026. “Not at all,” Mr. Cross said. The bit, in which he imagines that he would have been a generous, benign slave owner, grew out of an exchange he had during preparation for an earlier tour. At the time he needed a…