Arts & Living

For years, I was confused as to why so many people loved “The Great British Baking Show.” It has none of the elements of the typical American competitive reality TV show — there is no tension between contestants, no surprise challenge element and no significant monetary reward. So last fall, I

In November 2017, The New Yorker published a piece on photographer Josephine Sittenfeld’s series “Reunion,” which recreates college-era images of her friends when they meet back up at a reunion. The images are unflashy and direct, calling forth a haunting nostalgia for their former selves. Around the same

Based on Liane Moriarty’s novel of the same title, “Big Little Lies” set out to be a limited series with just one seven-episode season. However, the hype surrounding the show resulted in a season two, giving fans what they begged for. Did the second season live up to

This summer, one of my friends sent me a review he had found of Jai Paul’s album “Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones).” The first thing I noticed even before I listened to any of the songs was the album cover, which features the British producer and artist himself, wearing

In Chinese, to say goodbye is to make a promise of sorts. It’s an ostensibly simple promise, one that for most of us, only requires another glance backwards or maybe a short call if the distance is truly great. Indeed, zàijiàn — Chinese for goodbye — is to say in the

The most recent top pop music charts would suggest that the sound of summer 2019 falls somewhere between Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” and Shawn Mendes’ and Camila Cabello’s “Señorita.” And, yes, somehow Lil Nas X’s long running hit single “Old Town Road” and its many remixes have