CATEGORIES

FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF

[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. -The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022.

SLEEPER CELLS

To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.

Annals of Hollywood – The Man Behind the Nose

How Kazu Hiro transformed Bradley Cooper.

You're Glowing

Ilana Harris-Babou'’s impish take on wellness culture.

The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes

People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?

HERE COMES TROUBLE

“Napoleon” and Monster.”

SONGS OF HERSELF

“Hell's Kitchen,” at the Public, and The Gardens of Anuncia,” at Lincoln Center.

FRATERNAL ECLIPSE

The strange case of Israel Joshua Singer.

STAR CROSSED

The first rule of the celebrity couple: It always involves more than two people.

incoming teju cole

The night before everything came to an end, Ms. Prosper finally agreed to sing for us.

THE AFTERMATH

Kristin Kinkel, the sister of a school shooter, is still reckoning with her brother’ crimes.

THE CHOSEN CHIP

How Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution.

SHOUTS & MURMURS: THINGS I'VE HEARD MYSELF SAY ALOUD TO MY KIDS

I just told everyone to keep their bodies to themselves in the car, and then you put your feet on the back of your brother's head, and we see you're on your phone, which we repeatedly asked you to leave at home, and so now there's going to have to be a big consequence, and now a chasm has opened between my consciousness and the words emerging from my mouth, and I hear a cascade of scolding clichés rush forth in a frictionless flow, as if I'm an A.I. chatbot with the prompt \"Lecture my kids in a style that they will completely ignore and will cause me deep sadness,\" because I don't know where all this boilerplate hectoring comes from, but the reason we keep our bodies to ourselves is that we treat our bodies and other people's bodies with respect, and if you keep doing that we're going to tell Nana how you behaved.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS: INTERIORS

Onscreen and onstage, Sandra Hiller probes her characters with unusual depth.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

On November 6th, Donald Trump courtroom, where he had testified in a civil trial alleging that he and others in the Trump Organization had committed fraud, and gave himself a great review. \"I think it went very well,\" he told reporters. \"If you were there, and you listened, you'd see what a scam this is.\" He meant that the case was a scam and not that his company was. \"Everybody saw what happened today,\" he went on.

GOINGS ON: NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 5, 2023

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

Thanksgiving Rider

This document acknowledges that Lauren (“Talent”) has agreed to appear for a MAXIMUM of THREE (3) days and TWO (2) nights at the residence of her mother (“Venue”) during the Thanksgiving holiday, pursuant to the terms of this agreement.

A Critic at Large – Made You Look

The desert illusions of the Sphere and "City.”

Fiction – According to Alice

My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy’s butt. My mommy’s name is Alice. My mommy’s mommy was also named Alice.

UPPER CRUST

How pizza became New Haven's calling card.

BIG LOVE

Chris Stapleton's case for affairs of the heart.

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

\"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,\" \"Scene Partners,\" and \"Waiting for Godot.\"

CONDUCT UNBECOMING

THE CURRENT CINEMA

ARE YOU ENTERTAINED?

Barbra Streisand writes the mother of all memoirs.

GHOST, WRITER

When a friend died, she left behind a novel that needed finishing.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Joyce Carol Oates's relentless search for a self.

POINT BLANK

How do you tell the story of a murder you don't remember?

THE FALL

Tumbling out of a bedroom window.

THE VIOLENCE OF THE RAMS

A lamb enters the fold.

METAMORPHOSIS

The godfather of A.I. thinks it’s actually intelligent—and that scares him.