Very Intriguing Person is a series about people who fascinate us, for better or worse. One of the worst things about sex is that it involves more than one person. Unfortunately, this is also its chief appeal. An impossible problem that unites us all, the fact that most people want to mash themselves…

Maria Solange Ferrarini.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times On a sunny summer day in Montauk, Ipek Irgit was in the familiar situation of not knowing what she was doing with her life. It was 2012, and she was 34 years old. Earlier in the year, after having her heart broken, she had taken a…

In our new monthly column, YA of Yore, Frankie Thomas takes a second look at the books that defined a generation. Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Man Reading Book, 1914 My micro-generation—that is, the subset of millennials who were born in the second term of the Reagan administration and graduated…

“Suddenly everyone in Paraguay is interested in birding,” says Tatiana Galluppi, a conservationist with NGO Guyra Paraguay. “Citizen science is booming, and guides are starting to get calls from international tour operators.” We're heading out of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, toward San Rafael…

Managing yourself by November 13, 2018 Shana Novak/Getty Images Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have…

Nuestra lengua Credit...Peter Arkle Las palabras son la principal herramienta de comunicación de cualquier periodista. En The New York Times en Español nos tomamos muy en serio nuestra lengua y cómo la usamos: entendemos que el español es un idioma con muchas variantes, pero que entre los más de 500…

Shotgun-toting guards patrol an anonymous warehouse on the outskirts of Ciudad del Este. Perched on the triple border where Paraguay meets Brazil and Argentina, the melting-pot city is often associated with smuggling, cartels and drugs. But inside, a new hot commodity is piling up by the second.…

Postscript September 9, 2018 “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” the twenty-six-year-old rapper Mac Miller said, in an interview published on Thursday, the day before his death. “And I don’t want just sadness either.”Photograph by Jamie McCarthy / Getty On Friday afternoon, the rapper and…

Eis-me aqui mais um dia, vendo as imagens que amigos e familiares compartilham no WhatsApp sobre a grande fraude que estão querendo esconder de você. Às vezes, antes de dormir, toco um vídeo em que al

Before this year, I would been satisfied drawing deep on the little straw of my feelings, voting for Cynthia Nixon, then forgetting about Andrew Cuomo for another four years. But today, when we are told our capacity for rational political thought is being overwhelmed by propaganda, social media…

Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn’t exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company has done for eleven years now (matching the 11-year run of non-iOS iPods, by the way1). To that end, what has always interested me more are new-to-the-world…

An essay should explain why a student wants to attend a particular college and not others.Credit...Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times Here are some tips compiled from experts for writing that all-important application essay, which can often mean the difference between getting accepted — or…

Leave Rupi Alone Zoë Hu considers the ways in which wildly successful "instapoet" Rupi Kaur is mocked and criticized. By Zoë HuNovember 4, 2017 To talk about Rupi Kaur is to talk about numbers. Known for her unorthodox rise through social media, Kaur combines the intimacies of personal confession…

“What ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity” — Olivia Wilde Source: wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock Insecurity is an inner feeling of being threatened and/or inadequate in some way. We’ve all felt it at one time or another. But while it’s quite normal to have feelings of self-doubt…

Buckle up, folks, because we know a lot more about Antarctica than we did yesterday—and it is not good. According to several Antarctica-related studies all published today, a series of natural processes protected the Antarctic ice sheet from melting completely 10,000 years ago. Now, we’re pumping…

0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Reviewed June 3, 2018 Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we explore the righteous anger of Hole’s 1994 album, Live Through This. Try to…

Imagine a new, happier internet. Illustration: Pablo Delcan So far, the biggest perceived effect of the most important data-privacy law ever has been a sharp increase in emails from social networks and web services alerting me that those endless contractual walls of text you thoughtlessly click OKAY…

The Expanse There are two great moments in the history of life that should always inform the science fiction of human space travel and settlement. One is when life made the huge leap from prokaryotic cells, which are mostly simple and very tiny, to eukaryotic cells, which are very large and complex.…

“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some years before she filled her coat-pockets with stones, waded into the River Ouse near her house, and, unwilling to endure what she had barely survived in the…

For the past few months, a single advertisement has been relentlessly popping up in my Twitter feed. “Tired of the internet shouting factory?” it asks. “Welcome to Kialo.” The name is Esperanto for “reason,” and the site is a collaborative debating platform where you can host or join discussions and…

“Oh God, that is so horrible,” grimaces Maye Musk, as though I had pointed out vermin in her son Kimbal’s impeccable new restaurant. All I had done was to ask for her views on the current fashion for

In an essay from early this year, artificial-intelligence designer Jacqueline Feldman wrote, “Refusing simple descriptions of the world — insisting on the world and not a micro-world — constitutes political resistance.” She was talking about AI’s ability (or not) to feel pain (or, really, how humans…

Cultural Comment April 17, 2018 The rapper Kendrick Lamar’s historic milestone—becoming the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for music—figures in the grander, affected consecration of blackness within élite spaces.Photograph by Ellis Parrinder / Camara Press / Redux In 2015, the journal…

I got the new MacBook Pro (13″, fully maxed-out version) several months ago. My older MacBook Pro was (and is!) in good working order, but when I hired my brother last year he ended up using my ancient MacBook Air. Every time he’d do basic work the computer sounded like it was gearing up to blast…

Toni Morrison wrote, “Anything dead coming back to life hurts.” In Spanish we say that when a child is born it is given the light. And that’s what it feels like to say the words, X⁠—. Like I’m being given a second chance at the light.

Two weeks ago, Facebook learned that The New York Times, Guardian, and Observer were working on blockbuster stories based on interviews with a man named Christopher Wylie. The core of the tale was familiar but the details were new, and now the scandal was attached to a charismatic face with a top of…

0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Reviewed March 11, 2014 Greta Kline is a 19-year-old who records under the name Frankie Cosmos. Her charming new indie pop album Zentropy touches on love, aging, and the archetypal triumphs and disappointments of young life in a big city.…

0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Reviewed April 2, 2018 The mystical grandeur of Golden Hour creates a magnetic effect as Kacey Musgraves sings simply about the world as if she’s the first person to notice, and you’re the first one she’s telling. Kacey Musgraves’ third album…

Faye Bridge January 4, 2018 - 5 min read Learn Last Updated on July 22, 2021 by Laura Coronel If you’re reading this, you’ve either decided to learn to code this year as a complete beginner or maybe you’re already a programmer and want to expand your skill set. Either way, you’re likely familiar…

Page-Turner April 2, 2018 Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond. In today’s economy, work is structured more like a string of one-night stands.Illustration by Oliver Munday Before Dale Carnegie wrote one of the best-selling business books of all time,…

On Thursday, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, gave a speech laying out a new national strategy for artificial intelligence in his country. The French government will spend €1.5 billion ($1.85 billion) over five years to support research in the field, encourage startups, and collect data…

When did writing start to feel tenable, if ever? It feels tenable now. It was always plausible. I’m the oldest of five children from the same two parents, and I benefited from being the oldest in a number of ways—primary among which was that I learned to speak and read, and consequently write,…

The recently revealed Facebook data “breach” that allowed Cambridge Analytica to get access to millions of users’ worth of Facebook data has been greeted as a shocking scandal. Reporters and readers have been surprised to learn about the ability to gather personal data on the friends of people who…

Everyone thinks my dog is a puppy. His large, wide-set eyes; small, soft body and playful demeanor belie his maturity and emotional depth — attributes that become obvious once you get to know him. The truth is he’s about four, though the exact date of his birth, like that of many rescue dogs, is…

Page-Turner March 27, 2018 In general, the solid execution of Teen Boss makes the concept behind it—tween-tycoon ambition—even more unnerving.Teen Boss / Bauer Media Group The magazine Teen Boss, styled as Teen Bo$$!, débuted in September of last year. It publishes quarterly, like an earnings…

Portrait by Ann Zhao. The first time I saw Mitski in concert, I spent the day after walking around Toronto calling all my friends, my mom, and my sister, telling them how unbelievable the show was. I had been moved by shows before–mostly huge, performative ones, like Kanye West in a stadium, or…

Naples, Italy 1987 (© Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos) The writer who goes by the name of Elena Ferrante has, over the past 25 years, produced seven novels. The most famous of them— My Brilliant Frie

In the second half of 2017, the phrase “bisexual lighting” slipped into the queer Twitter lexicon. The phenomenon it described — film characters illuminated with deep blue lights on one side and saturated magenta lights on the opposite, which also happens to be the colors of the bisexual pride flag…

Comentario Credit...Hudson Christie La practicidad es la fuerza más subestimada y menos comprendida del mundo actual. Como rectora de las decisiones humanas, podría no ofrecer la emoción ilícita de los deseos sexuales inconscientes de Freud ni la elegancia matemática de los incentivos económicos. La…