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Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
[ad_1] Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is,...
Taylor Swift’s Master Plan
[ad_1] In retrospect, that Tumblr post might be one of the most important things that Swift has ever written. It has all the qualities of a good Taylor Swift song,...
Why Do Doctors Write?
[ad_1] The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical construct—“my patient”—hadn’t yet entered my consciousness, much less my lexicon....
Iran’s Daughters of the Sea
[ad_1] They have worked in defiance of Iran’s labor laws, which stipulate that “women shall not be employed to perform dangerous, arduous or harmful work.” For decades, the government failed...
What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads
[ad_1] Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard...
The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now.”
[ad_1] The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as its...
Miley Cyrus’s Voice
[ad_1] Two weeks ago, in the run-up to the release of her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” Miley Cyrus, who is thirty-two and one of the most successful pop stars...
Breaking Free from the People-Pleasing Trap
[ad_1] Growing up as the fat kid who would do anything to fit in shaped my identity in ways I never fully understood until much later in life. This early...
“Ballerina” Leaps into John Wick’s Bloody World
[ad_1] It’s been instructive to see “Ballerina,” which opens this week, so soon after the new “Mission: Impossible” installment. In the latter, it’s hard to top Tom Cruise’s intrepid stunt...
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
[ad_1] In 2022, Jacinda Ardern, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a stranger in an airport bathroom. Ardern was alone, washing her hands, when a middle-aged...
