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How a School Shooting Became a Video Game
The Final Exam, a recently released video game in which you play as a student caught amid a school shooting, lasts for around ten minutes, about the length of...
Madame President: The Cover That Never Was
The portrait above, “Kamala,” painted by Kadir Nelson, would have been the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue of The New Yorker—that is, if Kamala Harris had won...
Are We Living in a Dystopia?
In a recent episode of “Silo,” the sci-fi series from Apple TV+, a character who does not have long to live puts on a virtual-reality headset. She’s spent her...
The Ghost’s-Eye View of Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence”
Although Steven Soderbergh started out as an independent filmmaker, he may be Hollywood’s last true believer. He made fine studio movies back when star-studded genre pictures were still studios’...
Ballet Past and Present, at New York City Ballet
The Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company—skilled, sympathetic, but still searching for a strong identity—returns to its home away from home, the Joyce, for the tenth time. The most...
Garth Risk Hallberg’s Essential Joyce Carol Oates
Like many people, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg was daunted by the size of the celebrated American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s body of work, which encompasses dozens of novels...
What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined Facebook.” Social media had...
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Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and the Collapse of the Hollywood #MeToo Era
In the faux aristocracy that is Hollywood, a Blake Lively should not have reason to meaningfully cross paths with a Justin Baldoni. Lively, best known for playing Serena van...
The Enigmatic Artistry of Terrence Malick
Biographies of great artists are of inherent interest, but in the case of Terrence Malick, one of the greatest living filmmakers, there’s an extra fascination because of the great...
Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
On November 28, 1924, Raymond A. Dart, a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, was getting ready to attend a friend’s wedding when a pair of South African...
