The Best of Times

May 6, 2020 — Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist, writing for newspapers and magazines, as well as for his own site, CinemaScópio.As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated...

Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of twelve crime novels, including the New York Times best seller The Turnout. Her latest novel, the national best seller El Dorado Drive, was published in June 2025. Formerly a writer on HBO’s The...

Sep 23, 2026 — Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, James Gray, Robert Eggers, and Lance Oppenheim are among the many directors who will be taking questions.

Dec 5, 2022 — For all the weekend’s best-of-2022 lists and awards, the Sight and Sound poll remains topic #1.

Dec 21, 2020 — This month we’re reading David Bordwell on the Massive Auteur Monograph, Rachel Kushner on Marguerite Duras, and Adam Gopnik on early animation.

Mar 27, 2020 — Following a briefing on the crisis, we turn to a few items that might help us take our minds off it.

Dec 8, 2017 — “We live in an age in which articles are written daily on the need for ‘checking out’ of online culture, so that we may disconnect from the bombardment of grotesqueries that keep us in an emotional tailspin,” writes Chuck Bowen,...

Mar 18, 2026 — Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary music. Her trajectory from civil engineer to sound artist began while working at a geotechnical company in Medellín, where she discovered computer-based music production—a revelation that...

Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, which was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine,...

Jun 24, 2025 — As the New York Times rolls out the results of its new poll, we look to a few indicators as to where this might be headed.