It is of course painful to meet one’s limits, no matter the situation or circumstance. When I say limits I speak in the most general sense. Every personality is encircled by its prohibitive rind, by t
I lost my first language at the age of four. Before that age, I spoke and understood, and then, like so much else, the words fell away during my one-way trip over the Atlantic Ocean. Here is a black v
Adjust Share T he black, rubbery mat bubbles unpredictably beneath my back as I hold one sixty-pound dumbbell in each hand, palms facing each other above my chest—knees bent, feet firm—and move my arm
Driver flees ahead of a worsening dust storm during the Dust Bowl; Texas Panhandle, 1936. The higher ground is getting pricey. That’s because how fast we go may be the world we get 1 , but where you l
Solemos olvidar que el primer partido creado en nuestro país fue un partido de oposición. En 1887, Antonio Taboada fue arrestado por osar candidatarse en oposición a Bernardino Caballero. Unos días de
I can see now where this story ended, although for a long time I was playing with other endings, reluctant to let go. It ended with that moment of cinema, crossing General Stroessner’s spongy lawn and
On a warm day last spring, dozens of protesters gathered outside a shopping center on the west side of Hawaii’s Big Island. They weren’t there to boycott a store or a pipeline or to deride a politicia
Secondary Gain is an anti-advice column. It follows in the tradition of other psychoanalytic experiments that have opened up the consulting room using media: from Susan Isaacs’s advice columns in the
Lamenting a life lived online. My generation was the first to fully come of age online. The end result is, in a word, cringe . Like every generation, we believe ourselves uniquely differentiated from
Big Cheese Photo/Getty Images Project managers, in theory, are some of the best candidates to become CEOs of their organizations. In their daily work, they must bring together all the disparate aspect
Alain Delon as Riple Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) 1960 Comrades, Welcome to the desert of the real. Free from all forms of censorship that pervade our media, Žižek goads and
The first test screening for The Talented Mr. Ripley was, as producer William Horberg remembers it, “a total disaster.” The early cut of Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’
Adjust Share At twenty-six, in 2006, the year before the iPhone launched, I found myself driving a red Subaru Outback—the color was technically “claret metallic,” the friend who’d lent me the car had
Omegle “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. T
Originally published in Arabic , this is our first piece in a rolling online issue about Palestine, born out of both the unfolding genocide in Gaza, in the aftermath of October 7th, and ongoing conten
On the morning of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was full of catastrophic confidence. His seventy-three thousand troops were camped on a ridge near a tavern called La Belle Alliance. His n
When Joyce Carol Oates was thirty-four, she started a journal. “Query,” she wrote on the first page. “Does the individual exist?” She felt that she knew little about herself—for instance, whether she
Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”) By Oct. 15, 2023 People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to f
Grant Singer (right) at a New York screening of Reptile . Grant Singer has lit people on fire. He’s summoned extraterrestrials, turned bone-breaking dancers into crumbling statues, decapitated them, a
October 12, 2023 Letter From the Editor The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment. Arielle Angel Tweet Copy Link Email This has been the hardest week we’ve
So, I was thrilled to see the response to my Atlantic article from Friday . I had expected far more negative reactions from people that considered their comfortable management positions threatened. St
HBR Staff; fotostorm/Getty Images Hard work has been romanticized since corporations existed. In the business world, idioms about how sleep is for the weak or how no amount of talent can supersede har
At a conference recently, someone pulled me aside and told me they’d be down to offer me funding for my research. I was like, awesome, because for years people have been yelling at me for doing survey
In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: “This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown,
In collaboration with Urban Outfitters and Dickies, we created a series of stories that feature creative leaders who offer their insight on the “new” work world. In 2015, I wrote a book called “ I Kno
Bari Weiss, Sarah Haider, Grimes, Anna Khachiyan, and Louise Perry at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Photo: Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The question “Has the Sexual Revolution Faile
The worst relationship I ever had involved a man who was fond of telling me about how much he was working on himself. It was constant. Every day included lengthy discussions of emotions, namely his, o
Platform Realism This thread by Roland Meyer proposes the concept of “platform realism” to describe the quasi-photorealistic output of generative text-to-image models like Midjourney. The term is mode
Edited and arranged by Robert Friedman Write your heart out. Everybody has at least one story to tell. Read, observe, listen intensely! as if your life depended upon it. If you can “interview” an olde
BRIAN WILSON HAS BEEN DEAF IN HIS RIGHT EAR since childhood. He mixed the Beach Boys’ albums, including Pet Sounds , in mono because he couldn’t hear them any other way. “It was sort of like being rob
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a
Whatever passes for conservative thought in the American academy usually passes through the influence of Leo Strauss. In his teaching, the political philosopher combined an outward respect for liberal
I am intensely envious of Adam Phillips. The British psychoanalyst and writer has published some twenty-odd books, starting with a study of the British analyst Donald Winnicott in 1988. Every year or
Longform From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. July 5, 2023 Graphic by Marina Kozak; inset photo of Boygenius by Vivian Wang ; top row: Perfume Genius, Vam
Life in Plastic Photo: Hanna Lassen/Getty Images I did expect it to feel like marketing. I did expect it to be defensive. I did expect for Margot Robbie to be beautiful and Ryan Gosling to be harmless
The closest thing that I have ever received to a love letter was a photograph of a dissected cow’s heart. He had salvaged it from a biology practical and, in a flourish of inspiration, smeared it thro
A paper from computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI safety offers “a simple and effective attack method that causes aligned language models to generate objectionable b
“I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.” That’s putting it mildly. It’s hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is surely on any sho
I love to learn and the longer I live, the more I love learning, the more I measure the value of my moments by the amount that I learn inside them. I’ve been very fortunate to have worked and played o
I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a sunny quad, wearing an actual tweed jacket