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Ariel Levy on Emily Hahn's "The Big Smoke"
Though I had always wanted to be an opium addict, I can't claim that as the reason I went to China.” Thus begins “The Big Smoke,” Emily Hahn's account of her journey from peppy globe-trotter to sallow lotus-eater (and back again) in nineteen-thirties Shanghai. This insouciant kickoff leaves you curious why Hahn went to China, of course, and why she was so keen on becoming an opium addict. More pressingly, it makes you wonder: Who is this lady? What else will this droll, naughty adventurer get up to?
2 min |
December 01, 2025
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TO DIE, TO WEEP - "Hamnet."
Two families, unconcerned with dignity.
6 min |
December 01, 2025
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WEAK FEMALE LEAD
Hello! I am the weak female lead in this dystopian Y.A. action movie, and I really just need to lie down. Ever since we ran away from Society six days ago, my ankle’s been acting weird. Not, like, broken-weird, but every time I step down it kind of makes this clicking noise? Wait, it just did it again. Did you hear that?
3 min |
December 01, 2025
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Edwidge Danticat on Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl”
As girls, we may find it difficult to picture our mothers—especially if they are stern Caribbean mothers—as anything other than the poised ladies they’re so determined to mold us into.
3 min |
December 01, 2025
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O.G. DEPT. FEET JUST GO
In a rehearsal studio in the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, Kurtis Blow was limbering up and getting loose. Earlier this year, his left arm swelled up abruptly, requiring four surgeries to resolve what was eventually diagnosed as deep-vein thrombosis. Blow usually holds the mike in his right hand when he raps, but he had to get his left arm going, he said, “because it’s my ‘Throw your hands in the air’ arm.”
3 min |
December 01, 2025
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THE LOUNGE WARS
At the airport, what's the difference between out there and in here?
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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THE BIG ICE IS SICK
One of the greatest polar-bear hunters in Arctic history confronts a vanishing world.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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DISAPPEARED
The Trump Administration pilots a new deportation program.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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WRITTEN IN STONE
In Scotland's Orkney Islands, the Neolithic Age dominates the landscape.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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POSSESSION
Who owns Hilma af Klint's legacy—the art world or spiritual seekers?
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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THE TRIAL THAT WASN'T
Would the January 6th case, or any of the failed prosecutions of Donald Trump, have made a difference?
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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WIRE MOTHER
For Ruth Asawa, making art meshed with making a life with others.
7 min |
November 24, 2025
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THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Geothermal energy is bubbling up.
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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WILDE AT HEART
Stephen Fry's lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers.
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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THE SEARCHERS
Sirāt,” an astonishing new film from the French-born Spanish director Oliver Laxe, begins in the Sahara Desert—specifically, a mountainous stretch of southern Morocco where nomadic European revellers have come, in large trucks and camper vans, for an epic rave.
6 min |
November 24, 2025
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Ellen Willis's Review of Elvis in Las Vegas
I have very little interest in Elvis Presley’s music, and I have even less interest in the mythology of Elvis as a Towering Figure in American Music.
3 min |
November 24, 2025
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HATCHET MAN
How Kash Patel is transforming the F.B.I. on behalf of Donald Trump.
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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LARA'S THEME MADHURI VIJAY
That year, my mother was taking French lessons at the Alliance Française in Bangalore, and she claimed that her teacher had been impressed with her from the start.
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
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SECOND ACTS
\"The Queen of Versailles\" and \"The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire.\"
5 min |
November 24, 2025
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EFFIGIES OF ME
There is a big demand these days for effigies of me, and I’m happy to report that we now offer two different versions for purchase.
2 min |
November 24, 2025
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Laura Loomer has the President's ear. Who has hers?
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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THE NEW COAST PAUL YOON
This happened after the war.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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ART OF THE REAL
Robert Rauschenberg's transformative energy.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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UNTIL TOMORROW
Solvej Balle's philosophical time-loop saga.
8 min |
November 17, 2025
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MYSTERY MAN
How Rian Johnson became an Agatha Christie for the Netflix age.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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I BITE BACK
Best practices require that I state at the outset that I do not possess a law degree, paralegal training, formal or informal knowledge of the laws of this city, county, state, or country, or any familiarity whatsoever with the traditions of conduct associated with Judeo-Christian law.
3 min |
November 17, 2025
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HARD MODE
Rosalía's intense, expansive new album.
5 min |
November 17, 2025
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Hannah Goldfield on Anthony Bourdain's "Don't Eat Before Reading This"
I’m not being facetious when I say that I remember exactly where I was when I first became aware of Anthony Bourdain. It was the summer of 2002, two years after he published “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” a seminal and unsparing account of life as a chef in restaurant kitchens. I was fifteen, and on vacation with a friend and her family, on Long Island. My friend’s father was reading the paperback and shared aloud one of the dirty secrets in the book, which we all took, immediately, as gospel: one should never order fish on a Monday.
2 min |
November 17, 2025
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GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
David Byrne's songs and choreography of earnest alienation.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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MOVING THE DIAL
The comic genius who pushed early TV further than it could go.
10+ min |