How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?
I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God didn’t exist. (Don’t say anything at school, he…
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Mysteries
The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother
The seeming sleepiness of a movie like Jarmusch’s new and prize-winning triptych Father Mother Sister Brother is deceptive and also instructive. The film’s selection as the Golden Lion at…
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic rage amid brazen…
“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details
They’re a pretty wretched lot. There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife left him, and Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), a…
The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs…
The Download: mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer
Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is different, and it is constantly changing. It’s shaped by…
Adebunmi Gbadebo and the Mysteries of Clay
The relationship between Adebunmi Gbadebo and her material, clay, is one of supplication—on the part of Gbadebo. The churched among us consider a potter something of an autocrat; they find…
A Summer Reading List of Lighthearted Mysteries
For many readers, summer is the time for breezy, undemanding books—the kind you can toss in a beach bag and finish before the sunburn sets in. Sue Halpern, a former New Yorker staff writer…
We Finally Have An Explanation For 1 Of "The White Lotus" Season 3's Most Intriguing Mysteries
This included US comedian Sarah Silverman, who, fortunately, is friends with The White Lotus’ creator Mike White, so was able to ask him herself (in fact, the pair played a couple in the…