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What We’re Reading
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The Art World
Worlds in Rooms
Bodies on display, in exhibitions of the work of Sanya Kantarovsky, Lisa Yuskavage, and Johannes Vermeer.
Books
Briefly Noted
“Moderation,” “Via Ápia,” “Misbehaving at the Crossroads,” and “The Key to Everything.”
The New Yorker Documentary
Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory”
Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt’s documentary short follows a creative community held together by collaboration and the efforts of a woman who is part landlady, part fairy godmother.
Books
What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap
Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions. Have we been focussing on the wrong things?
On and Off the Menu
L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids
The city is defined by street carts and family-run restaurants. ICE’s vicious campaign has prompted many venders and patrons to stay home.
A Critic at Large
Was the Renaissance Real?
We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth.
Postscript
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable
The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
The Food Scene
A Young Parisian Chef’s Nouvelle Stodginess
At Le Chêne, in the West Village, a “Top Chef France” alumna cooks up chilly Gallic chicness.