The New Yorker
BUTTERFLIES
The childhood of a lepidopterist.
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
The New Yorker
THE SQUID HUNTER
Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
The New Yorker
BUZZED
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
4 min |
September 04, 2023
The New Yorker
HARBORING RATS
Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
The New Yorker
LITTLE WING
When homing pigeons leave home.
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
The New Yorker
PETS ALLOWED
Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?
10+ min |
September 04, 2023
Mother Jones
To Match a Predator
Dating apps promise to hook you up with romance. But they can deliver con artists, rapists, and murderers.
10+ min |
September/October 2023
Vogue US
The Point of the Past
Early on, Zadie Smith became something of a reluctant poster child for multicultural Britain. Her new, historical novel excavates her country's history. Zing Tsjeng goes along for the journey.
10+ min |
September 2023
The New Yorker
A Neighborhood, Authored
Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies
Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.
2 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
MAN OF STEEL
Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
THE AUTOPSY
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals
Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.
2 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.
2 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet
Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.
1 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI
“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”
3 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND
Is beekeeping wrong?
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
TELEVISION - Strikes, Game Shows, Novel Adaptations
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this season.
2 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL
Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?
6 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
THE BIGGEST LOSERS
How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.
10+ min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
ALTERED STATES
“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”
6 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
BLANK SPACE
The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”
7 min |
August 28, 2023
The New Yorker
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - Afro-Pop, R. & B.Greats, Hip-Hop Diversity
As a summer full of mellow outdoor concerts comes to a close, the fall makes way for multiplicity.
2 min |
August 28, 2023
Vanity Fair US
Sympathy for the Devil
In 1981, Margy Palm was forced into her car at gunpoint by a serial killer suspected of more than 30 murders. What happened between them over the next eight hours-and later while he awaited execution-was so unlikely that journalists and filmmakers have tried for decades to get palm to tell the whole story. Now, in a series of in-depth interviews with Julie Miller, a survivor breaks her silence
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Doppelganger Effect
It was more than a decade ago when writer and cultural critic Naomi Klein first realized people were confusing her—and her work—with another writer and cultural critic: Naomi Wolf. In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Klein grapples with a phenomenon she’s started to see repeated in the culture all around us
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Curious Case of the Cardboard Basquiats
A show of “lost” works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art was meant to be a blockbuster. Then the feds came knocking
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Just Kids
In 2013, a bunch of unknowns made a tiny movie called Short Term 12. Ten years later, a shocking number have become stars, Oscar winners, superheroes, or all of the above. BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, LAKEITH STANFIELD, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ, KAITLYN DEVER, and writer-director DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON dish about the undersung drama that launched their careers
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
LIFE OF RILEY
DAISY JONES & THE SIX PROPELLED RILEY KEOUGH TO STARDOM EVEN AS SHE COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, AND A LEGAL BATTLE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, PRISCILLA. NOW THE ACTOR, FILMMAKER, AND NEW MOTHER IS CHASING PEACE AND CLARITY AND, IMPROBABLY, FINDING THEM
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element
Last fall, while filming Apple’s Lessons in Chemistry, adapted from the beloved novel by Bonnie Garmus, showrunner Lee Eisenberg made an on-the-fly change: The actor Lewis Pullman’s turn as Calvin, a progressive, introverted chemist in 1960s Los Angeles, was so winning that Eisenberg wrote him into more episodes than originally planned. Earlier this year, the Top Gun: Maverick scene-stealer wowed festival-goers at Sundance with The Starling Girl and at Tribeca with The Line. As he braces for leading man attention, Pullman reflects on life in and out of Hollywood.
2 min |