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A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival
[ad_1] For a few weeks each August, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe fill every theatre, student center, lecture hall, and pub basement in the Scottish capital...
The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby”
[ad_1] Dijon Duenas has one of those voices that’s meant for televised singing competitions and gospel choirs, swooning ballads and achy slow jams. It preens and jilts, wails and whimpers,...
“And Just Like That . . . ,” Carrie Bradshaw Bids an Unsatisfying Farewell
[ad_1] On Thursday, the third and final season of “And Just Like That . . . ,” the sequel series to “Sex and the City,” came to an unceremonious end. The episode takes...
“An Open Heart,” by Jamil Jan Kochai
[ad_1] This is the seventh story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here.They cut open my father’s chest...
Adam Friedland’s Comedy of Discomforts
[ad_1] When CBS announced the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” in July, a long-theorized concern came true: the late-night talk show was dead—for real this time!—its embalmed...
How the Bonds Among Virtual-Reality Furries Saved a Life, in “The Reality of Hope”
[ad_1] Watch “The Reality of Hope.” Anyone who doubts the validity of relationships that take place only through a digital medium has never experienced one. But these days most of...
Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches?
[ad_1] Two decades ago, I was leaving my morning clinic at the hospital where I work when I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my head. It was as if...
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin
[ad_1] An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.”...
The Futility of Simulating Nature
[ad_1] In “The Anthropocene of Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle. [ad_2]...
Our Age of Zombie Culture
[ad_1] It’s not alive, but it’s not dead, either. It consumes a vast amount of resources. It’s mindless: what presents as its will is really a drift toward the mean,...
