At a Jewish chicken farm, Sukkot is a time for homemade pesto, random dancing, and making friends with strangers
“What we’re hoping to do is give people one version of what it means to live Jewishly in connection to the land.”
Why the would-be heir to Nora Ephron is the least romantic rom-com you’ll ever see
“Dating And New York,” the most straightforwardly-titled film to hit theaters this fall, is supposed to take place over a number of months. But you wouldn’t be able to tell, because nearly every scene in this rom-com takes place in peak leaf-peeping season.
Francine Prose would like to return to eavesdropping on strangers
“I always pretend I’m the person with the shortest attention span of anyone I know.”
How a 17th century mathematician inspired a very modern novel
Rivka Galchen showed up to our Zoom interview wearing white headphones and a baseball t-shirt bearing the words “Brooklyn Poets.”
Joyce Carol Oates on the fourth book she’s published this year
“Some experiences are so ravaging, they seem almost to enter us from an impersonal source, like an invasion — disease, disaster.”
Ice cream wars: Ben & Jerry’s is hardly the first to make frozen desserts political
There’s a long history of ice cream brands engaging in activism — and serving as flashpoints in political conflicts.
With #MyOrthodoxLife, religious women say Netflix doesn’t speak for them
It looked like a pretty ordinary Instagram post: a smiling woman in a trendy periwinkle dress, posed against a background of roses.
Five questions for ‘Call My Agent’ star Liliane Rovère
“I don’t have my youth anymore. I don’t have my beauty. But I feel more united, I feel better in my own skin.”
Meet the husband and wife behind Williamsburg’s first Hasidic art gallery
Zalmen Glauber is a local sculptor and an evangelist for his neighborhood’s artistic potential.
Netflix wants you to believe ‘My Unorthodox Life’ is a feminist fairytale — is it?
In “My Unorthodox Life,” women who wear trendy outfits are unequivocally empowered, while those who don’t are benighted and oppressed.