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What We See in Lauren Sanchez’s Cleavage
Remember a few years back when boobs were declared over? The data points supporting this claim were tenuous but nonetheless of some note.…
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Liza Minnelli’s Desire to Touch
The avant-garde company Heartbeat Opera is engaging in another innovative game of source-text telephone, this time with a new iteration of…
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The Real-Life Drama of “Dying”
In observational documentaries, one important thing tends to be left unspoken: namely, why the films’ subjects let filmmakers embed in…
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The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Between 1848 and 1852, more than twenty thousand Chinese migrants made their way to San Francisco in search of gold. The vast majority…
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Imani Perry on Experimental Histories of Black Life
Imani Perry teaches at Harvard and is the author of “South to America,” a genre-mixing exploration of the American South, and, most…
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The Best Books We Read This Week
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
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How the Academy Awards Have Adapted to Catastrophe
Until two weeks ago, Oscar pundits were describing this awards season as “weird.” Unlike last year’s slate, dominated by Barbenheimer, the…
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Should You Question Everything?
Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a…
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Donald Trump Plays Church
It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the…
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Till Lauer’s “Flames and Shadows”
For the cover of the January 27, 2025, issue, Till Lauer captured the tragic skyline in Los Angeles. The fires that have ravaged the…
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Washington’s Hostess with the Mostes’
Washington still cherishes a belief that it was long a place of bipartisan comity, of after-hours socializing during which fences were…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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The New Season of “Severance” Is All Work and No Play
The sci-fi series “Severance” styles itself as a tidy allegory for the misery of the modern office drone. Most of the employees on the…
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Britain’s Badger Wars
A hundred years after the opening of St. Pancras station, now the flashy London home of the Eurostar, a narrow strip of land opposite the…
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Why Are We Tormented by the Future?
Caught between competing impulses, we praise living in the moment while obsessing about what’s to come. Source link