Brooklyn

The pleasures – and perils – of getting on your bike

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Jody Rosen lives and cycles in Brooklyn, which makes him what the Mexican essayist Julio Torri calls ‘a suicide apprentice’.…

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Cuomo and de Blasio’s unearned lap of honor

9 June 2020 6:37 am

After weeks of state-mandated lockdown, thousands of preventable nursing home deaths and days of angry protests and looting, New York…

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Bill de Blasio unites cops and protesters — in disgust

4 June 2020 5:02 am

New York City is crumbling into shambolic lawlessness and its citizens are growing more afraid and frustrated by the day.…

Superbly convincing: Unorthodox reviewed

2 May 2020 9:00 am

When I lived briefly in Stamford Hill I was mesmerised by the huge fur hats (shtreimel) worn by the local…

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Life and death in New York City

3 April 2020 12:54 pm

No matter where in the apartment I am, if I sit very still, I hear a siren. Over the 18…

About a boy: Ruben Niborski as Rievan in Menashe

My favourite frum film of the year – thus far: Menashe reviewed

9 December 2017 9:00 am

Menashe is a drama set amid Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic community. It is performed entirely in the Yiddish language. It is…

How to be good

28 October 2017 9:00 am

Suffering, wrote Auden, takes place ‘while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along’. His…

Modern feminists should come to me if they want the truth about sex

9 April 2016 9:00 am

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

Saoirse Ronan as Eilis and Emory Cohen as Tony in ‘Brooklyn’

Traditional storytelling at its most exquisite: Brooklyn reviewed

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Brooklyn is a wee slip of a thing compared to the Bond film, Spectre, and cost $12 million, as opposed…

Domhnall Gleeson as Jim Farrell and Saoirse Ronan as Eilis in ‘Brooklyn’

Colm Toibin on priests, loss and the half-said thing

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Jenny McCartney talks to unstoppable literary force Colm Tóibín about loss, priests and half-said things

What’s it like to talk to a serial killer?

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘I’ve never met a human being who doesn’t appreciate being listened to, being taken seriously,’ said Asbjorn Rachlew, the Norwegian…

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Manhattan

Woody Allen: a life of jazz, laughter, depression —and a few misdemeanours

26 September 2015 8:00 am

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg), the prolific, Oscar-winning auteur, New Orleans-style jazz clarinettist, doyen of New York delicatessen society,…