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Books to Bring on Vacation
There’s a lot to look forward to on this summer’s reading list: Rachel Aviv on the mother-daughter dynamic, the return of Colson Whitehead’s great protagonist Ray Carney, the perennial...
Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”
Margaret is entirely aware of what she’s doing when she pulls off these empathetic maneuvers, but she remains oblivious to how she herself is being puppeteered—when she speaks Russian...
David Hockney’s Hidden Depths
Known for his colorful, light-filled portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, many of them depicting friends or lovers, Hockney, who died last week, in London, at the age of eighty-eight, became...
How Scott McTominay Led Scotland Back to the World Cup
That analysis was, if anything, too kind to Fred. (A fellow United fan once remarked to me that watching the Brazilian attempt to control the ball was like watching...
Olivia Rodrigo’s Early-Twenties Lament
“They say modern love’s a cruel endeavor,” Olivia Rodrigo sings on “u + me = <3,” a lush, desperate new song from her third album, “You Seem Pretty Sad...
Fight Night at the White House
White and Trump have been aligned for quite some time. In his interview with Remnick, White called the President “one of my very, very good friends,” and commended him...
When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?
In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread. Source link
What Marcel Is Selling
The menu, from the French chef Marie-Aude Rose, who also runs La Mercerie, is old-fashioned in the au-courant way. A preprandial demi-baguette is laid directly on the tablecloth—no board,...
Laverne Cox Wants to “Rehumanize Everybody”
It was really the cut of the suits and the silhouette. He’s known for this hourglass silhouette, and I think because I’m trans and I have very broad shoulders . . ....
How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?
Fosdick’s sermon on that fateful spring day had been advertised in the city’s newspapers: “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” From the pulpit, he argued that “new knowledge and the old...