Page-Turner October 31, 2016 A 1905 illustration of Emma Bovary and her daughter Berthe in Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.”Composition by Alfred de Richemont. Engraved by Charles Chessa. The following essay was drawn from “Frantumaglia,” a collection of Elena Ferrante’s writings and interviews,…
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Persons of Interest In 1984, at the height of his literary fame, Raduan Nassar announced his retirement, to become a farmer. January 21, 2017 Raduan Nassar was forty-eight and at the height of his literary fame when, in 1984, he announced his retirement. He wanted to become a farmer.ILLUSTRATION BY…
52 Places to Go My Canada Canada, our No. 1 pick for this year’s 52 Places to Go list, spans millions of square miles. It also contains multitudes, not just of people and locations, but of memories. W
As the daughter of a senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army, Ren Futong has lived all 17 years of her life in a high-walled military compound in northern Beijing. No foreigners are allowed
Image: brett lohmeyer In this letter , you jokingly (I think) say that people who like to run are “crazy and cannot be reasoned with.” The thing is, though, I am one of those people — I like running a
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“Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this is the last day of my political career, so I will say what must be said. We are standing at the edge of the abyss. Our political system, our society, our country itself are in greater danger than at any time in the…
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In October of 1955, a marketing researcher at Ford named Robert Young wrote the poet Marianne Moore a curious letter. Ford had designed a new car, which it hoped would revolutionize the industry, and it was struggling to find a good name. Young said that the options his division had come up with…
Letter from the Philippines Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war. November 13, 2016 President Rodrigo Duterte said that, if he was elected, “it will be bloody.” His drug war has killed…
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Go away, pro-Trump bots [Update 5/30: I originally took this post down because it got picked up by some pro-Trump accounts that I think were bots which would post it several times a day to various places. I didn’t want to be involved in that or seeming to support it. After that I got in more trouble…
Imagen: The WB. Estamos en un momento mágico, a punto de hacer las maletas. En menos de una semana volveremos a Stars Hollow y todavía todo es posible. Antes de que el asunto devenga en una sucesión de análisis cínicos sobre la sobreexplotación de la nostalgia, las expectativas fracasadas o la…
Jungyeon Roh For the past year, Melania Trump’s silence has hung around her like an intriguing and prohibitively expensive perfume. She has spoken on the campaign trail less than any prospective first
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Ensayo La marcha de las mujeres en Argentina: formación de una tribu Miles participaron en la marcha del pasado "miércoles negro" en Buenos Aires.Credit...David Fernández/European Press Agency BUENOS
Culture Desk October 12, 2016 Sam Park and the author in their college days.Courtesy Curtis Sittenfeld If you’re trying to tell the story of a friendship, do you start when the two of you met? For Sam and me, that was in the late summer of 1996, after we became co-editors of the arts and…
Leadership September 27, 2016 Leer en españolLer em português If you’re a chief executive officer, your job is to execute. It’s written right into your title. But what does it mean, in terms of daily tasks, to be the company’s top “executer?” After all, CEOs don’t actually build factories or sell…
Cultural Comment October 3, 2016 An Italian journalist claims to have found the novelist Elena Ferrante’s true identity, via financial records.PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN WIGGS / THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY The news that the true identity of the writer Elena Ferrante has, allegedly, been uncovered was…
Author’s Note Credit...Leon Edler Sometimes, when I open a magazine and find yet another intelligently researched piece of journalism or brilliant social analysis in the form of a book review, I think: “What beauty!” And then, almost immediately afterward, I think, “Could I offer the world something…
Half an hour late, and just ahead of his minder—he was always a step ahead of his ponderous old minder—Abraham Chabon sauntered into the room where the designer Virgil Abloh was giving a private preview of Off-White's collection for spring-summer 2017 to a small group of reporters, editorial…
Leading teams September 13, 2016 Leer en españolLer em português Change initiatives fail when senior leaders don’t see that their organizations are social systems. Organizations are defined by bundles of local relationships, social expectations, and unwritten rules that exist between thousands of…
Dept. of Technology Unfollow November 15, 2015 It was easy for Megan Phelps-Roper to tweet things that made people cringe—she knew that they were evil or deluded by God.Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if…
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The Americas | Bello Does the ousting of Dilma Rousseff weaken or strengthen Brazil’s democracy? AS WELL as its five football World Cup victories and the world’s largest rainforest, Brazil has just acquired another unique distinction. It is the only country to have impeached two presidents in just…
Kathryn Hahn in I Love Dick. Amazon When Amazon first started making original series, it had a gimmick: The internet’s very own big-box store would put the first episodes of potential series online so viewers could vote on which ones would become full-fledged series. The gambit made the obligatory…
The rapper G-Eazy at Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Last month, the white rapper G-Eazy — a handsome ectomorph sporting a motorcycle jacket and 1950s-slick hair — headlined a show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, part of a weekslong tour. Over…
Who can object to the libertarian principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, and the right to hold property—at least in the abstract? The problem is that the real world is never "abstract." All philosophies must ultimately confront reality, and the more radical versions of…
Profiles In the Nevada desert, the pioneering artist Michael Heizer completes his colossal life’s work. August 22, 2016 Heizer, a pioneer of the earthworks movement, began “City” in 1972. A mile and a half long and inspired by ancient ritual cities, it is made from rocks, sand, and concrete mined…
Participation in the work of the internet is not mandatory, but it is expected, at least in certain cultural spheres: including the one in which Frank Ocean is supposed to exist. The understanding we seem to have reached is that the living out of one’s life — the friends you see, the food you eat,…
The cows were the first to go because cows are big, and killing them was easy. The ranchers on Santa Cruz Island had been killing cattle for more than century already. Rounded up, marched onto ships and motored 20 miles across the Pacific to mainland California, the cows were slaughtered, just like…
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Are you happy? Would you give up life as you know it to zip back to some idyllic teen summer and laze on the arm of a sorely missed first love? These questions salt the bedrock of Frank Ocean’s work, from the Coachella romance of “Novacane,” breakthrough single from a mixtape literally titled…
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Premature Evaluation: Frank Ocean Blonde Premature Evaluation August 22, 2016 3:25 PM By Premature Evaluation: Frank Ocean Blonde Premature Evaluation August 22, 2016 3:25 PM Back when he made Channel
A cademics in the humanities — but particularly those who specialize in film, television, and comics — have come to view the pop-culture thinkpiece with dread. Invariably some new essay on, say, taste and television is published to great fanfare, at least from other writers of pop-culture…
The FADER It’s been four years since Channel Orange, and Frank Ocean — the New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-based genius recluse— is back. If reports are to be believed, Ocean will drop his sophomore album, Boys Don’t Cry, on Friday via Apple Music. He’s made assurances of a follow-up to his 2012…
Friends: I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more aw
José Bordón 3 min read· Jul 7, 2016 -- “Lo único necesario para que el mal triunfe, es que el hombre bueno no haga nada”. — Edmund Bruke. Paraguay puede ser el más claro ejemplo de esta frase. Profundamente atascado en la mente de los paraguayos están Taú y Kerana, protagonistas del mito clásico y…
Ringer illustration Friday marked the release of Star Trek Beyond, the bounce-back third chapter of the series reboot launched by J.J. Abrams in 2009. Abrams, of course, has since left for greener (if
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