Jorge Colombo sketches speedboats, using Brushes, an application for the iPhone.
Jorge Colombo is an illustrator, photographer, and graphic designer, and the author of “New York: Finger Paintings by Jorge Colombo.”
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Brave New World Dept.
The Snake with the Emoji-Patterned Skin
In the wild, ball pythons are usually brown and tan. In America, breeding them to produce eye-catching offspring has become a lucrative, frenetic, and—for some—troubling enterprise.
By Rebecca Giggs
The Current Cinema
The Sterile Spectacle of “Dune: Part Two”
Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is better than its predecessor, but only in a few extravagant moments does it rise above proficiency and flirt with transcendence.
By Justin Chang
The Current Cinema
Two African Migrants’ Fantastical, Harrowing Odyssey in “Io Capitano”
Matteo Garrone’s epic about two young Senegalese cousins attempting to reach Italy is his finest film since “Gomorrah.”
By Justin Chang
Profiles
Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean
The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself.
By Maya Binyam