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The Coastal Mysteries of “Romería” and “Rose of Nevada”
In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore…
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The Artistry of Tarot
Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more. Source…
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Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I.
Anadol enjoyed an early triumph in 2018, when he lit up the silver sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, with projections…
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The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li notes at the opening of her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” mimicking the words used…
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The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet
Matt Ström-Awn, an independent designer, works mostly with startups in their early stages. Recently, two different clients proudly showed…
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Mark Power’s Uncanny Photographs of Construction Sites
Mark Power’s “Fashion” lavishes formal attention on industrial machinery and, by extension, on the human effort behind it. Source link
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Mind-Blowing Life Hacks to Rectify Reflecting-Pool Problems!
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Tom Gauld’s “Landscape Portrait”
For the cover of the June 29, 2026, issue, the British cartoonist Tom Gauld took inspiration from a visit to an exhibition of…
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What Science Knows About Grief
When I asked Shear about the biological aftermath of grief, she brought up two-person neuroscience, an emerging discipline that studies…
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The Curious Career of “the American Dream”
The American Dream has always had its skeptics, and not just among those who have been institutionally marginalized. Rags-to-riches…
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What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway?
The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.…
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Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers
Since the fifteenth century, most adaptations of Homer have taken the form of translation, which has never been easy. Homer wrote a very…
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How Matthew Rhys Stays Hungry
Rhys and I chatted over Zoom while he was in Florence, Italy, on a “bit of a family outing” with Russell and their son. We discussed his…
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A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising”
Any time is a good time to grow up if you find what you love, but there was something special about coming to self-consciousness in the…
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A Diehard Drinker Accidentally Quits
The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened. Source…
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“Toy Story 5” Won’t Leave Kids to Their Own Devices
Ingeniously, Stanton and Harris weaponize a foundational conceit of the “Toy Story” universe—that inanimate objects can have freedom of…
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The Dance Legend Lucinda Childs’s “Momentary Reprise”
The police-drama template gets a vigorous update in the Saudi director Haifaa Al Mansour’s twisty mystery “Unidentified.” A teen-age…
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“The Invite” Is a Witty Relationship Comedy That Could Be Wilder
Wilde’s previous feature, the dystopian thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” (2022), was a through-the-looking-glass nightmare of…
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Are Dads Getting Better?
Saxbe reports on research showing that dads generally have lower testosterone than non-dads; the more time they spend with their kids, the…
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J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score…
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“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy
A decade ago, back when Twitter was still Twitter, and writerly types gathered there to amuse one another, a Los Angeles-based…
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A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike
The novel’s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university…
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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…
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Has Tech Robbed Us of Our Sensory Lives?
There’s a genre of TikTok video that you might call analogcore. Not quite the calming, whispered monologues of A.S.M.R., this content…