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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its own as a cultural...
Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board
Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard Avedon, one of Mitchell’s idols. Conceptually, Mitchell’s work has its roots in his...
Hard Work Still Fuels Real Wealth Creation
A simple question exposed a hard truth: most people want more balance even if it means less money. The prompt was clear. Would you rather work 25 hours a...
REE Medical Guide: How to Choose a Good Disability Claim Company and Avoid Bad Actors
The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to process disability claims at a historic volume. In fiscal year 2024, VA reported completing more than 2.4 million disability compensation claims, a...
REE Medical Guide: How to Choose a Good Disability Claim Company and Avoid Bad Actors
The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to process disability claims at a historic volume. In fiscal year 2024, VA reported completing more than 2.4 million disability compensation claims, a...
Can You Reclaim Your Mind?
Modernists like Woolf developed an attitude, which T. S. Eliot called “impersonality,” meant to reclaim their mental lives from the habits they unknowingly followed. The philosopher Raymond Geuss has...
Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale
On Sunday, when it was reported that the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been stabbed to death at their home in Los Angeles, the...
A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal
“Cannon” is the second graphic novel by Lai, a thirty-two-year-old Australian who lives in, and makes art about, Montreal. Her first book, “Stone Fruit,” applied a similar visual style...
The Year in Slop
2025 in ReviewNew Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows.The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine...