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Japan’s Mizuho books 44% rise in Q2 profit, raises forecast
The company’s results show how Japan’s largest banks are cashing in on the end of ultra-low interest rates Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group…
World
The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard…
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Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time…
Beauty
A Century Under the Influence of Edward Gorey
To wit, in “Something Else Entirely” there’s a sprawling illustration of women in black, men collapsed at their feet and peering out…
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Olivia Laing’s Rome Includes a “No Frills” Rabbit and the Borghese Gardens
Olivia Laing is out with their latest, The Silver Book (FSG), a queer love story and noirish thriller set in the world of Italian cinema…
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As Artist Greer Lankton Is Celebrated in a New Book, Nan Goldin Remembers Her Friend
Do you have any of Greer’s work, Nan? I was obsessed with Catholic art for many, many years. I had a collection of bleeding hearts, so…
Beauty
Steven Klein on His Most Memorable Images for Vogue
Great photographers are often described as having a unique, unmistakable style—a phrase that can feel hyperbolic, yet for a few true…
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Required Reading: The 7 Books That Inspired Anika Jade Levy’s ‘Flat Earth’
While it’s likely enough that you’ve encountered tales of rivalries between best friends or biting portraits of coastal arts scenes,…
World
A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
That’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon…
Style
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
Beauty
25 Years Later, Annie Leibovitz Raises the ‘Question of Women’ Again
In 1988, Annie Leibovitz met Susan Sontag during a shoot to support Sontag’s upcoming work of critical theory, AIDS and Its Metaphors. A…
Beauty
Zadie Smith on Truth, Legacy, Melancholy, and Chappell Roan
You are sitting there, staring at yourself on a screen, when suddenly, you’re no longer alone. Peering out from the digisphere is a true…
Style
Why Immanuel Kant Still Has More to Teach Us
That may not exactly sound like a call to arms, but the title of an expert and engaging new introduction to the philosopher encourages us…
Beauty
Catherine Newman on Blending the Everyday with the Unimaginable in Her New Novel, ‘Wreck’
Fiftysomething mother and writer Rocky, the protagonist of Catherine Newman’s 2024 novel Sandwich and its new sequel, Wreck (out on…
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When Reading Books Means Business
Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling ways in which people pursue…
Beauty
I’m Not a Carrie, I’m a Cathy
There are, of course, Cathy cartoons that just don’t hold up, effectively encapsulating our lowest societal expectations of women. (Did we…
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Judge orders military to restore DEI books at some base schools
A federal judge ordered the military to restore DEI-related books to the shelves of five of its schools on bases across the globe, saying…
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How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
In retrospect, the book feels like an artifact of a fleetingly optimistic moment, and of a time when the mainstreaming of feminism—recall…
World
A Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
The two have sparred before. In 2009, they exchanged public letters in the Guardian, circling a question that nags at many eco-minded…
Beauty
The End of a Marriage—Explained Through the Gifts That Sustained It
If I’d known it would be the last ever gift I would give my husband, I’d have chosen something better. It was March 2020, and on the day…
Style
Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself
But it wasn’t until he arrived in Paris, during his junior year abroad, that he could truly nurture his bohemian streak. The city was…
Culture
Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence
A separate group of authors sue the company last month for allegedly misusing their work in artificial intelligence training APPLE was hit…
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Required Reading: The Five Books That Changed Chris Kraus’s Life
If you’ve ever pored over the pioneering autofiction classic I Love Dick (or, for that matter, watched its Joey Soloway-helmed 2016 TV…