The Week | All you need to know about everything that matters (original) (raw)

• tv reviewÉtoile The creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel leap from stand-up comedy to world-class ballet in this promising new series about desperate dance companies in New York City and Paris whose leaders hatch a scheme to boost interest by swapping their forever demanding star performers. Expect the witty, rapi...
• FOOD & DRINKWine: New York’s cab francs Whatever else you may think of our state, “there’s no doubt that New York makes great cabernet francs,” said Eric Asimov in The New York Times. Those produced in the Finger Lakes region are “particularly distinctive.” They’re “true cool-climate wines,” almost always “floral and red-fruited” and rela...
• BOOK OF THE WEEKThe Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen WittThe Thinking Machine is the biography of a tech titan, but it’s also “something more interesting and revealing,” said James Surowiecki in The Atlantic. Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang has been the outfit’s CEO from 1993 through its explosive rise to its current standing as the world’s ...
• OBITUARYMario Vargas Llosa The novelist who lectured Latin AmericaFact and fiction circled each other in the works of Mario Vargas Llosa. Through realism, erotica, and even crude slang, the Peruvian novelist wove tales of political corruption and moral compromise. As part of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s—along...