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What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
[ad_1] If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel unduly burdened by the demands of everyday cognition....
Earth’s Poet of Scale
[ad_1] If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the...
What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
[ad_1] In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in...
Conor McPherson’s Reliable Treasure
[ad_1] Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The Weir” has been one of the most reliable treasures of the Irish Repertory Theatre. First directed by Ciarán O’Reilly in 2013, revived in...
Package Tracking Takes a Dark Turn in “Paper Towels”
[ad_1] When an online order goes missing, employees are often blamed. But how should they be punished? Now premium users get to decide. [ad_2] Source link
“Hot Spot,” by Nora Lange
[ad_1] He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He’d paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy. [ad_2] Source link
The Simplistic Moral Lessons of “Superman”
[ad_1] The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine “Superman.” The most recent installments in the franchise—Zack Snyder’s...
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“A Marriage at Sea” Is a Study of Couplehood in Extremis
[ad_1] “To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense ofalienation,” Geoffrey Wolff writes in his...
A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
[ad_1] Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an Australian brought up in...
Richard Price’s Street Life
[ad_1] When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had...
