Goings On

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

Olivia Laing’s memoir of restoring a garden unearths the politics and history of cultivating a plot.

Two new graphic books by Charles Burns capture the pleasures and discomforts of human connection and self-expression.

Ronan Farrow, Jia Tolentino, and other New Yorker writers on the classic books that changed their lives.

Clover Hill offers the kind of technique-oriented cooking that usually emerges from the city’s billionaire canteens—and prices to match.

Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be.

In a dinner series called the Line Up, line cooks, sous-chefs, and chefs de cuisine from buzzy New York restaurants get to be executive chefs for a night.

If a self-consciously clubby restaurant suddenly becomes easy to get into, what’s the point of going at all?

In his new video for “Not Like Us,” the hip-hop artist claims victory in his long battle with Drake.

This rom-com about the marketing of the Apollo space program, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, has an inconsistent tone and a vague point of view.

The director Pascale Bodet works wonders in “Vas-Tu Renoncer?,” based on the relationship of Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire.

The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race.

The artist discusses her new album, moving upstate, and the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.

“Regional Mexican” music is booming, but one young singer is in no mood to celebrate.