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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
[ad_1] If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism that...
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
[ad_1] At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar of the...
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
[ad_1] As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit through the disputed territories of Central Europe, all speed and...
The Four Horsemen Team Rides Again
[ad_1] As at Four Horsemen, where an oeuf mayonnaise is zebra-striped with squid ink and humble beans are treated like precious gems, Curtola trusts his diners to venture beyond obvious...
The Strange, Cinematic Life of Charlie Sheen
[ad_1] “I think there’s so many stories and images ingrained in people’s minds about the concept of me,” the actor Charlie Sheen tells the camera in the new two-part Netflix...
How Donald Trump’s Culture-Wars Playbook Felled Jimmy Kimmel
[ad_1] On Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration, ABC pulled the late-night series “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. The show, which had run for more than two...
Raul Lopez Wants to Be American Fashion
[ad_1] In the fall of 2014, Lopez staged an official Fashion Week event at Webster Hall. He recalled thinking, I’m about to hit it, I’m about to make it now—until...
Barry Blitt’s “Remote Control”
[ad_1] For the cover of the September 29, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt attempted to capture, in one image, Donald Trump’s unprecedented series of attacks on the media, destruction...
How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe
[ad_1] “I was losing my mind,” the chef and writer Samin Nosrat said. We were sitting in the living room of her small house in Oakland, and she was describing...
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming
[ad_1] In 2016, a sinuous remix of a track called “Diles” began pulsing its way through streaming services and night clubs. It featured a handful of Puerto Rican performers, but...
