A new spinoff of “The Office,” a new Jennifer Lawrence film, and more. The curator of our definitive guide to culture on what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this fall. Plus:

• Mac DeMarco does it all himself
• The terrible fate of a deported Russian refugee
• Carrie Bradshaw, gone too soon (and also too late)

Shauna Lyon Goings On editor

Today, we publish our fall culture preview, a quarterly feature put together by our arts-and-culture critics to highlight the most interesting events—movies; TV shows; Broadway and Off Broadway theatre; dance performances; museum and gallery exhibitions; rock, pop, and classical-music concerts—happening in New York City and beyond this upcoming season.

Guiding readers to great cultural happenings has been a central part of what we do at The New Yorker from the very first issue. Every week, in the Goings On newsletter, we deliver reviews and spotlights on top events, plus insights into what our critics are watching, reading, listening to, and doing out and about. In an age when the value of cultural criticism is contested, we take pride in diving deeper into the nuances of the most popular entertainment (Sheldon Pearce taps into the worldly intuition of Blackpink) and also in shedding light on lesser-known artists making essential work (Hilton Als brings to our attention the trenchant multimedia work of Stan Douglas). We also hear regularly from our writers on their current obsessions: Jia Tolentino is the reason I discovered Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume.” If you don’t get Goings On in your inbox you can sign up here—it’s free for everyone to receive.

In the fall culture preview, Inkoo Kang walks us through her picks for fall TV, including a sitcom spinoff of “The Office” that chronicles an editor-in-chief’s efforts to turn around an Ohio newspaper with volunteer reporters, the noir follow-up to “Reservation Dogs,” and a “mild science fiction" project from Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” Richard Brody previews the season’s movies, which include a new drama from Darren Aronofsky starring Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, and Zoë Kravitz, Jennifer Lawrence’s performance in “Die My Love” as a woman who struggles with postpartum depression, and two artist-centered dramas from Richard Linklater. There’s so much more in the full culture preview, which is available exclusively to our subscribers. If you’re not already one, please consider joining us today. Thank you for supporting our work.

Thanks to a random post on social media, the internet has decided that “Home,” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, is the worst song ever. (No, we don’t get it, either.)

How bad is it? In his latest column, the staff writer Kyle Chayka points out that “Home” was always a stand-in for the vibe of its era. What’s happening here is bigger than a debate about one “stomp clap” track. It’s a millennial-cringe backlash. “Driving the clip’s virality is a simultaneous disgust at and attraction to the artifacts and styles now known as millennial cringe,” he writes. “The disgust stems both from that aura of obliviousness and from a retrospective knowledge that the sincerity of late-two-thousands indie music was quickly co-opted into a more commercial version of itself.” Keep reading »

“This film is about morals, and what someone will do and won’t do.” On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington discuss their latest collaboration, “Highest 2 Lowest,” coming nineteen years after their previous film together. Listen and follow »

• Read: If all the A.I. news is feeling a bit … intimidating, try fiction instead—“Culpability,” by Bruce Holsinger, a tightly paced novel of domestic intrigue transposed into the fraught world of artificial intelligence. It’s one of the best books of the year so far.

• Watch: “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee’s remake of the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 drama “High and Lowest,” represents a drastic, late-career shift for him. As Richard Brody writes, Lee is “striking boldly out into a strange new artistic world.”

• Listen: Some of the episodes of the podcast “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs” are “truly majestic in scope,” Bill McKibben writes, “and the great pleasure of this project is the connections that it makes.”

• Today’s Crossword Puzzle: Word before New Roman or after New York—five letters.

• Laugh Lines: Test your knowledge of classic New Yorker cartoons.

• Name Drop: Guess the identity of a notable person in six clues.

P.S. Sydney Sweeney’s new movie, “Americana,” is out today. An homage to the Western, it’s sure to feature jeans. 👖