Fashion
How Issa Rae built TikTok’s first micro-drama hit
A brawny bodyguard shoves a bruised man, hands tied behind his back, toward the hood of a black SUV. A pen and a contract lay atop the…
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Culture
All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst
12. “Coward” After winning awards and generating controversy at Cannes for “Girl” (2019) and “Close” (2023), two queer coming-of-age…
News
Democrats Need to Learn How to Fight Each Other
They’ve lost the mantle of the party of change because the party is so settled in its identity. Source link
News
Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy
The growing animus to these facilities is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power. Source link
Business
Everlane and the Death of the “Good” Millennial Life-Style Brand
In 2017, the clothing brand Everlane opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Nolita. Right down the block from the former location of…
News
New York Plays Russian Roulette with Its Fiscal Future
By caving in to public employee unions, the state’s leaders seem determined to follow the road to fiscal hell. Source link
Culture
The Kids Are Not All Right at Cannes
Writing last week from the seventy-ninth Cannes Film Festival, I noted that some of the best movies to première here are often overlooked…
Culture
The Revolutionary Force of Sonny Rollins
The album is called “A Night at The ‘Village Vanguard’ ”; it features Rollins in a trio, with only bass and drums, no piano, the effect of…
Business
The Disappearing Reappearing Iran Deal
Negotiations remain in flux, but we’re a long way from ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ Source link
News
Life, Liberty, and Fried Chicken: Honoring the Heroes Who Gave All for Freedom
We have the little joys of life because of the men and women who have sacrificed everything. Source link
Culture
Mark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball…
Culture
Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
History is usually written in the third person, even though it has to be lived in the first, and Fehrman takes advantage of the rich and…
Culture
What Dogs See When They Look at Us
Laqueur takes the reader on a nearly encyclopedic trip through this truth and its consequences, ranging from Giotto’s dogs—calm,…
Culture
Cote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant
The restaurateur Simon Kim opened Cote in the Flatiron district, in 2017, with an alluring conceit: a marriage of two of the great…
News
Before His Murder, a Rabbi Addressed the Danger of Hatred
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, killed in the Bondi Beach massacre, reflected on the destructive power of words and deeds for a forthcoming book.…
News
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with…
Culture
The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to…
News
What Jack Kerouac Left Behind
Six months later, in February, 1943, most of the men Jack sailed with that summer—including Glory and the pastry chef—were killed when the…
Culture
What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the…
News
Trump’s Egregious Abuse of an Egregious Delegation
Congress never should have given away the power to appropriate unlimited settlements. Source link
News
Waymo suspends all freeway rides over safety
Waymo said that it’s pausing its robotaxi services on freeways in the U.S. as it updates its software to improve performance around…
News
Dana White Thinks Everyone Is a Fighter—Especially Donald Trump
Why would that be? If your parents put you in martial arts when you were young, your parents had money. Martial-arts training isn’t cheap.…