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Madeline Leung Coleman

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Madeline Leung Coleman is a features writer for New York. She writes the weekly criticism newsletter The Critics.

  1. wealth
    The Sneaky Ways Parents Transfer Money to Their Adult ChildrenLow-interest loans, wads of cash, pieds-à-terre, and other strategies that stretch the gift tax limit.
  2. wealth
    How Many Adult New Yorkers Are Secretly Subsidized by Their Parents?Parents are slowly transferring trillions of dollars to their New York City children, one down payment and Via Carota tab at a time.
  3. 2025 preview
    30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2025In uncertain times, we look to our sharpest writers.
  4. style
    How Does Maryam Nassir Zadeh Stay in Business?The brand once defined how downtown girls wanted to dress. Now it’s a mystery how it survives at all.
  5. close read
    Why Did Sean Baker Avoid Politics in His Films Until Anora?If his previous work implies a stacked deck, it stays vague about who stacked it. Anora just tells us: It was the ultrarich.
  6. the rehearsal
    Trajal Harrell Pays Homage to Alvin Ailey and Katherine DunhamHe’ll perform his piece Deathbed at the Whitney Museum in October.
  7. the rehearsal
    Joseph Gordon Wanted to Bring F-boy Energy to Lincoln CenterThe principal ballet dancer hoped to perform in Coppélia this fall, but his body had other plans.
  8. book review
    Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?Tony Tulathimutte’s second book is a hilariously brutal story collection about elder millennials grappling with their sexual failures.
  9. book review
    Danzy Senna Can’t Stop Thinking in Black and WhiteColored Television, the author’s latest comic novel about a mixed-race Black woman, holds diminishing returns.
  10. the critics
    Gena Rowlands Could Knock You OutThe late actress was the master of terrifying vulnerability.
  11. pet ethics
    Are We Forcing Our Pets to Live Too Long?We say end-of-life care is for the pet, but sometimes the treatment is for us.
  12. movie review
    Céline Dion Is Still Aiming for PerfectionHer new documentary refuses to be a portrait of a diva in decline.
  13. how to be a star in 2024
    21 Ways to Hack StardomAfter a dry period, a new crop of A-listers is rising in Hollywood — and doing it differently this time.
  14. obit
    No One Wrote About Sex Like Alice MunroIn Munro’s stories, women blow it all on desire.
  15. art review
    LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too MuchThe photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
  16. the critics
    Welcome to the PhonysOur theater critics dreamt up their own theater award categories for the year, including a prize for the worst mom on Broadway.
  17. art
    Maurizio Cattelan Portrait
    Maurizio Cattelan Takes the Piss Out of the Art WorldThe Italian artist’s first solo gallery show in decades is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.
  18. now serving?
    Is Zendaya the Leading Lady We’ve Been Looking for?Two critics face off about the actor’s Challengers performance and debate whether she knows how to serve onscreen as well as on the red carpet.
  19. movies
    With Challengers, Justin Kuritzkes Serves an AceHis first movie script for the sexy tennis drama has taken him from struggling playwright to in-demand screenwriter.
  20. encounter
    Lauren Manoogian Makes Clothes You Have to Feel to BelieveIt may not be obvious why the New York designer’s knits are so popular — until you’re close to stroke them.
  21. in conversation
    Todd Haynes Plays the SuperegoThe director is interested in people constrained by society’s rules. In his new film May December, he makes it harder to root for the rule-breakers.
  22. profile
    Hand Ashley Park the KeysThe actress took Broadway, then Paris. Now, she heads to Beijing for Joy Ride, this summer’s raunchiest R-rated buddy comedy.
  23. who’s your favorite artist?
    Donald Glover Hoped Swarm Would Make You Uncomfortable“I am not interested in putting an audience on a slow methadone drip of content. I’m more interested in trying to give someone pause.”
  24. profile
    Dominique Fishback Found Her MotivationIn Swarm, she plays a serial-killing superfan who really just wants one thing: to be loved.
  25. art
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres Never Saw This Work EitherNearly 30 years after the artist’s death, David Zwirner stages two pieces never manifested during his lifetime. How should we think about them?
  26. vulture lists
    The Best Books of 2022Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?
  27. encounter
    The Nightgown Doyenne of Brooklyn HeightsAt the shop with Sandeep Salter.
  28. appreciations
    Kate Berlant Is Destroying New York City!The theater is finally making people mad.
  29. announcements
    Sign Up for The Critics, a Weekly Culture NewsletterThe week in reviews.
  30. advent calendar
    Charles Mingus: Jazz Legend, Cat Toilet TrainerFollow the Charles Mingus method for no more litter boxes.
  31. book review
    Fear and Loathing in ‘Asian America’In The Loneliest Americans, Jay Caspian Kang tries but fails to restore meaning to an empty term.
  32. 2021 preview
    46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021With new novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and more.