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Kendrick Lamar and the Messy Art of Meta-Performance
A sense of abasement hovers over the performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there. The musician selected must be an internationally recognized...
Millennial Workplace Demands Reshaping America
Millennials are shaking things up in the workplace, and it’s hard not to notice. They’re not just clocking in for a paycheck; they’re demanding more from their employers. Flexibility,...
Cease and Desist: When to Send the Legal Equivalent of ‘Back Off’
Ever had someone step on your toes, legally speaking? That’s where a cease and desist comes into play. It’s like a formal way of saying, ‘Hey, cut it out!’...
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have offended the sensibilities of the day, but even then...
The L.A. Chefs Keeping Their Neighbors Fed
On the Tuesday morning in January when Los Angeles began to burn, the Santa Ana winds whipped hard at Courtney Storer’s driveway gate, at the edge of the city’s...
The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or photography typical of magazine covers. What...
Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would make his ideal cast. The gist of...
The Art of the Crossword
How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide, detailing how to curate word lists, use...
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to leave anything to chance....
The Art of Film Criticism
“Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled. “I said, ‘No,...
