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Annals of Innovation Build Better
Can 3-D printing help solve the housing crisis?
Life is Too Short
Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?
THE ROYAL ME
In \"Spare,\" Prince Harry must be cruel only to be kind.
THE BOOK OF LOVE
Reimagining the Victorian reformers who defended same-sex desire.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
\"The Last of Us,\" on HBO.
THE SWAMP
Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?
Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li
The difficulty with waiting, Rosalie thought, is that one can rarely wait in absolute stillness. Absolute stillness?—that part of herself, which was in the habit of questioning her own thoughts as they occurred, raised a mental eyebrow. No one waits in absolute stillness; absolute stillness is death; and when you’re dead you no longer wait for anything. No, not death, Rosalie clarified, but stillness, like hibernation or estivation, waiting for . . . Before she could embellish the thought with some garden-variety clichés, the monitor nearby rolled out a schedule change: the 11:35 train to Brussels Midi was cancelled.
PROFILES A RAUCOUS ASSAULT
How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men and women.
A Critic at Large: the American Beast
Accounting for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
THE INFINITE-MONKEY THEOREM: FIELD NOTES
SHOUTS MURMURS
LETTER FROM ITALY: THE MISSING
Many migrants disappear on their way to Europe. Most are never identified.
PROFILES: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
The executive leading Netflixs quest for worldwide domination.
THE CURRENT: CINEMA COLLUSION
“Saint Omer” and Turn Every Page.”
DEEP CUTS
Franz Kafka’ diaries reveal a writer who was antic as well as agonized.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huffdetails common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph.
ANNALS OF INQUIRY: THOUGHT PROCESS
What really goes on between our ears?
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Public’s Under the Radar, now in its eighteenth installment, is a lively showcase of experimental performance. Last year’s edition was scuttled by the Omicron surge, but the festival returns, through Jan. 22, with work contemplating desire, loss, queerness, chain restaurants, and King Leopold II. Among the offerings: LatinXoxo,” by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo above), who uses Spanish boleros, comedy, and pop songs to subvert Latin-lover tropes and his own father’s machismo.
U.S. JOURNAL: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
UPS offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs, so why is a strike looming?
HAMMER ATTACK
Three Virgin Marys kept their baleful eyes on the back of Allen’s head. But more powers were needed—of clemency, of healing—so, to accompany the dolorous mothers, somebody had also taped to the wall behind Allen’s hospital bed half a dozen Jesuses (a few were laminated), the famous “Last Supper” painting, and a grave-looking figure who, Alice, one of Allen’s sisters, told Gina, was St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, of last hope.
THE THEATRE: LANDS OF THE LOST
London’ Orlando,” My Neighbour Totoro,” and The Burnt City.”
A Critic at Large – Blood Lines
Seventy-five years after Indian Partition, have we learned how to say what happened?
We Never Left the Titanic
Twenty-five years later, discourse around the film is as lively as ever.
A reporter at large – Trapped in the Trenches
On Ukraine's battle fil, drone surveillance ae it almost ete sible to maneuver.
The Unrelenting Roar of a Crypto Mine Tore This Town Apart
Cryptocurrency aims to revolutionize finance, but its mines are destroying communities across America.
NOTIONS OF THE SACRED
AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ
TOP OF THE HEAP
“Babylon” and Corsage.”
DOLOROUS HAZE
“Fleishman Is in Trouble,” on FX on Hulu.
LIVE, FROM NEW YORK
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres's portraits of the South Bronx.