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Charli XCX Misses the Moment
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled,...
What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. Source link
“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a...
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the London Review of Books and The...
The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a two-hander. Charlie’s prevailing disgust with...
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Is Extravagantly Superficial
Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution of the characters’ deep bond, from steadfast sibling affection...
Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to be a...
In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
While the earth thus trembled, different and equally disruptive discoveries were happening in the sky. Thanks in part to improvements in telescope design, astronomers began identifying thousands of nebulae...
“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. Source link
Barry Blitt’s “Split Screen”
In February, 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drawing by the art editor Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy examining a butterfly through...
Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link