Coming of Age in Panic Mode
The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life. “White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin” is a…
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The Revenge of Millennial Cringe
In the summer of 2009, a shambolic Los Angeles band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a single titled “Home.” A romantic duet between the group’s founder and lead…
What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be…
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Summer Rays”
For the cover of the August 18, 2025, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti portrays the symphony of sight, sound, smell, and touch which comes to life when you walk in nature. “In my family,…
The One Race That Eric Adams Is Winning
By all appearances, the New York City mayoral race has narrowed to two viable contenders: Zohran Mamdani, a thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist, and the disgraced former governor…
Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom
Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the camera cuts, for an instant, to two children…
What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot
Contrary to what many of my friends believe, good academics are always working—at least in the sense that when we’re stuck on a problem, which is most of the time, it’s impossible to leave…
Richard Brody’s Summertime Movie Picks
The recent heat wave may be only a memory—but enshrining memories is what movies do, and many of them rely on harsh summer climates as crucial elements of drama. In the mid-twentieth…
Hollywood’s Conservative Pivot
“King of the Hill,” the animated sitcom that first ran for thirteen Americana-powered seasons between 1997 and 2010, had a deceptively simple premise. The family at its heart collectively…
“Thirty-Three,” by D. S. Waldman
Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said. Source link
The Piercing Immigrant Drama of “Souleymane’s Story”
The title of the new film from the French director and screenwriter Boris Lojkine, “Souleymane’s Story,” has a few entwined meanings. In the broadest sense, it describes the movie itself:…
The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
The app Tea is a kind of digital whisper network for women. No men are allowed to join. Those who wish to be members must submit evidence, including selfies, in order to prove that they…
There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust”
Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a…
Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”
The cover of the August 11, 2025, issue, by the artist Amy Sherald, is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit. The art work is featured in Sherald’s show…
Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype
There’s a certain face that only Sterling K. Brown can make. It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep glee or charming irony…
At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine
In June, 2023, a Russian Iskander ballistic missile blew apart Ria Lounge, a popular pizza restaurant (and one of the few that remained open) in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donbas that was…
The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde
One night this past spring, the audience members at a bagpipe concert in Red Hook, Brooklyn, could be organized into two neat categories: people who knew little to nothing about…
“Split Brain,” by Weike Wang
Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not. Source link
The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game”
Even if Mozart’s name and a quote from Beaumarchais’s play “The Marriage of Figaro” didn’t feature in the credits of “The Rules of the Game,” this 1939 film by Jean Renoir would still be…
Epstein Island Revealed
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Worlds in Rooms
I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with a painting, a photograph, or a…
How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one…
Was the Renaissance Real?
Roeck goes on to address the great question of why Europe became the center of prosperity and innovation on the planet. Colonialism and imperialism can’t explain it; they’re as old as…
L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids
In early July, while shopping at a farmers’ market on the east side of Los Angeles, where I live, I bought a few packages of raw chicken thighs from Jose David Ruelas, of Garcia Ruelas…