Goings On

The podcast host recommends three recent favorites—about the gentrification of punk, what makes a great actor, and the corrosive influence of social-media platforms.

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

Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen on narratives of our era of strange, changing weather.

Shawn Levy’s biography of Clint Eastwood explores revelatory connections between the filmmaker’s methods and his deep-rooted world view.

A masa-based version at Hellbender, a riff on soufflé at Pitt’s, and a modern-classic stack at S&P Lunch.

The city is defined by street carts and family-run restaurants. ICE’s vicious campaign has prompted many venders and patrons to stay home.

At Le Chêne, in the West Village, a “Top Chef France” alumna cooks up chilly Gallic chicness.

The new restaurant, near Union Square, offers hard-to-find regional dishes. But you’ll have to wait in line.

Jean Renoir’s tragic farce, from 1939, scathingly denounced French society’s frivolity amid threats of war and fascism.

Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth.

The artist, on tour this summer, makes songs underpinned by feelings of dread and longing.

The artist’s album “New Threats from the Soul” is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes, and wordy disquisitions on desire.

Pygmalion’s visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.

The band members discuss when to leave a relationship, hoping people slide into their D.M.s, and their new album, “I Quit.”