BERLIN — The tensions simmering beneath Germany ’s willingness to take in one million migrants blew into the open on Tuesday after reports that scores of young women in Cologne had been groped and robbed on New Year’s Eve by gangs of men described by the authorities as having “a North African or…

In a 1982 lecture that went on to be published as an essay called “Technologies of the Self,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault argues that looking after oneself, rather than being a form of navel-gazing or narcissism, is a kind of “vigilance” that dates back to antiquity. For Socrates, Plato,…

Here is some useless shit I’ve bought myself since my dad had a stroke six weeks ago: Two pedicures, $30 each. Two massages, one barebones ($55), the other bougie ($115). Three pairs of nice $25 underwear, mostly for no reason but also because I have zero time to do laundry. Three blowouts, ranging…

Elena Scotti/FUSION Cecilia Bleasdale was mulling over an outfit for her daughter Grace’s wedding, at a Roman Originals store about 30 minutes outside of Liverpool in early February 2015. The 57-year-old snapped photos of three possible dresses and texted them to Grace. Bleasdale decided on the blue…

Over the past decade, advertisers have spent untold millions trying to turn Talia Kocar and her peers in the millennial generation into loyal customers. But on a recent afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., in a kind of consumer torch-passing, Ms. Kocar, 25, watched a focus group of teenagers drink…

If you ever question the extent of American menswear’s New York bias just try to name a handful of Los Angeles based labels. If you’re actually able to hit number five, than you’re a better man than I, but regardless of how many brands you’re personally able to recall, it’s undeniable that when it…

To find one of the rarest fabrics in the world you don’t travel to the Italian countryside, or the Scottish Isles, rather you journey seven hours outside of Tokyo, to the Wakayama Prefecture. There on the southeastern coast of Japan you’ll find the Loopwheeler factory, one of the last bastions…

Giada Fiorindi / Quartz If you’ve ever found yourself buying clothes just because they’re cheap, or if shopping itself has become a form of entertainment for you, I’ve got a proposal: The next time you buy something, spend a whole lot on it. Enough that it makes you sweat a little. The point is to…

‘Get up at a normal time. Only highly successful masochists get up before 7am by choice.’Photograph: John Lamb/Stone/Getty R ight now, across the internet, approximately 12m articles purport to share the secrets of highly successful people : 2016 is a new year, and if you simply restructure your…

One of the greatest days to be a music fan is the day the Coachella poster comes out — not because we’re all going to this mythical desert party (though plenty of us are), but because it spells out, in the starkest terms available, the hierarchy of the entire music universe. You can tell how big an…

Peter Arkle Peter Arkle Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an article first published on December 30, 2015. The tips, however, are timeless. We rolled up our sleeves and combed through recent Styles stories, sorting through the many tips and tricks scattered throughout. On subjects like…

Sketch comedy has proved to be rich stomping ground when it comes to feature length projects. Between Saturday Night Live ’s many contributions to the big screen and even Kroll Show ’s recent foray into off-Broadway, there’s no limit to how comedians can develop these brief narratives into longer,…

Adam Savage, host of the tv show MythBusters , has a workshop in San Francisco’s Mission District. The walls and shelves—pretty much every surface, actually—are covered in movie and TV costumes and props, some actually used in filming and some replicas Savage acquired or made. Every time I go there…

Jim Young/Reuters Before Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes was published, her agent asked if she would talk to a woman named Tina Fey. Wiseman, a new mother, "had no idea who she was," but after a short conversation agreed to sell Fey the film rights to her book, which dissected…

Why the struggle for Ukraine is the key to Europe’s future Remembering the revolution The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. By Serhii Plokhy. Basic Books; 395 pages; $29.99. Allen Lane; £25. ROWS over inheritances are bitter—within families and between countries. At the heart of the conflict…

Future War , by Christopher Coker , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It’s on amazon UK and USA . Publisher Polity writes : Will tomorrow’s wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network…

Giving head to your handyman might be a porn cliché, but it's also a legitimate form of payment in some Dutch circles. Plumbers and house painters have long exchanged their services for sex in the Netherlands, according to professor Hendrik Wagenaar, who is working on a book about sex worker…

The traditional TV Industry should be in panic mode. Maybe it’s not a big deal that Netflix has an estimated 69 million subscribers worldwide and counting. Maybe it’s even a small thing that netflixers watch 100 million hours of video on the service every day. “Yea, but they don’t own enough premium…

Although the RIAA's 2015 mid-year recorded music revenues report showed that vinyl sales are outperforming streaming services , some commentators argue that the rise of interest in vinyl is a fad . Fad or not, Amazon's holiday sales figures, released on Monday, showed that their highest-selling…

FRANKFURT — Uber is rapidly expanding its ride-hailing operations across the globe. But here in this city of 690,000 — less than the population of San Francisco, Uber’s hometown — the company recently did something unusual: It retreated. In early November, Uber shut its small office in Frankfurt’s…

What began as a small lawsuit brought by four former Uber drivers against the tech-titan just expanded into a potentially industry-crippling class action suit that could force the company to rethink its entire business model. Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan first filed suit against Uber back in 2013,…

Talk Nerdy With Us recently chatted with Warren Ellis, the creative genius behind the new graphic novel Injection . Ellis is an award-winning writer best-known for Trees, Supreme: Blue Rose and Moon Knight . Read our interview below where we discuss Injection #6 which hits stores January 13th. First…

STOCKHOLM — Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote “Money, Money, Money,” considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins. Few places…

For an in-depth story on the quest to diversify the ranks of television directors , Variety spoke with dozens of industry professionals at all levels and at many companies, and is posting transcripts of a selection of those interviews. Lesli Linka Glatter has been one of the most in-demand directors…

What you make of Quentin Tarantino’s latest genre genuflection The Hateful Eight will really come down to one thing: how many times can you tolerate a woman getting hit in the face? The gauntlet is thrown down early: Kurt Russell’s ursine bounty hunter John Ruth smashes his captive, Jennifer Jason…

“A drug-free world: we can do it.” So ran the optimistic slogan of the UN General Assembly’s last special session ( UNGASS ) on drug policy, in 1998. Eighteen years on, the world is further than ever from being drug-free. Cannabis and cocaine consumption have risen by half, opiate use has nearly…

Before delving into the Sisyphean task of putting together the 100 theater roadshow and some of with individual 70mm screenings you’ve been reading about, it’s important to first remember that while the ability to shoot on film might have from near death, the battle between digital and film…

IT’S time for my annual holiday gift guide, the chance to recommend presents more meaningful than a tie or sweater. For $20, through Heifer International ( heifer.org ), you can buy a flock of ducks and help a family work its way to a better life. Or $74 through CARE ( care.org ) pays for a…

Game Developers Matt Trobbiani and Chris Johnson are best friends. They do everything together. They grew up together. They did a Computer Science degree together. They made video games together, released video games together. But when Matt released Hacknet and Chris Johnson released Expand ,…

In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola appeared at a “protected by an army of [his] kids.” At the event, he offered his thoughts on Nietzsche, personal films and also foretold the future of film. The iconic filmmaker said then: “Cinema as we know it is going to radically change. I see twelve cameras over…

“This is the most Kubrickian room,” Lin-Manuel Miranda said the other night, sweeping into the seventh floor of the New Museum, on the Bowery. The room was long, very white, with two glass walls, facing south and east, and in a corner was a curved white leather couch, to which Miranda led his party.…

Donald Trump at a rally in Hampton. Throughout this story, GOP candidates are shown on the stump in the Granite State last summer and fall, in photographs shot for the The Atlantic and New Hampshire magazine. Mark Ostow / New Hampshire magazine / The Atlantic The angriest and most pessimistic people…

Quentin Tarantino directs Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Samuel L. Jackson. Illustration by Zohar Lazar Combine two films released on Christmas Day, Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “The Revenant,” and what have you got? Five hours and thirty-eight…

The page view is a zombie. For years , everyone has been saying it is no longer a meaningful way to measure online popularity. But the publishers who make websites and the advertisers who pay for them swore throughout the year that they’re no longer fooled. The era where a mere click is the crown…

Jones, who will star in a reboot of “Ghostbusters,” says, “People get hung up on writing smart shit. To me, it’s more about performance.” Photograph by Jonno Rattman for The New Yorker On TV talk shows, the host introduces a guest, then music plays while the guest emerges from backstage. On…

Fabiano Caruana appeared in a photograph in this magazine in 2001, when he was eight. It was raining, and he was wearing an oversized slicker and standing on a park bench. He held an umbrella with one hand and, with the other, reached across a chessboard to make a move in a game against his teacher,…

Editor’s Note: Adam Witmer is a 22-year-old senior at UNC School of the Arts in Winston Salem, North Carolina, where he works in film preservation and as a projectionist at one of the largest film archives in the country. At this very moment he is the projectionist at the AMC Burbank 16 in Los…

In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told me, sitting in the immaculate white kitchen of her suburban home. She’s organized, she pointed out, and good at math, and there is little doubt she has an entrepreneurial streak. As a kid, she…

This is a column where James Franco talks to his reverse self, Semaj, about new films. Rather than a conventional review , it is a place where James and Semaj can muse about ideas that the films provoke. James loves going to the movies and talking about them, but a one-sided take on a movie, in…