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

1 They Want You to Be Overwhelmed Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of…

Annals of Wealth The Golden Generation February 14, 2016 A reality show, “Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver,” chronicles the lives of Weymi Cho (left) and a group of friends.Photograph by Angie Smith for The New Yorker On a crisp Sunday morning in November, Weymi Cho picked me up at my hotel, in…

These lax safety policies guarantee that many people inside the inundation zone will not get out. Twenty-two per cent of Oregon’s coastal population is sixty-five or older. Twenty-nine per cent of the state’s population is disabled, and that figure rises in many coastal counties. “We can’t save…

In a massive victory for animal rights activists, and for America’s chickens, United Egg Producers, a group that represents 95 percent of all eggs produced in the United States, has announced that it will eliminate culling of male chicks at hatcheries where egg-laying hens are born by 2020. This may…

by Sarah Nicole Prickett I dropped out of college the first time in a bright kind of fall. The college, because I’m Canadian, was actually called university, and the university was of Western Ontario,

Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Feature It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself. Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter By June 15, 2016 One night in early January, a little after 9…

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Credit...13Milliseconds for The New York Times WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives. Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities…

Neil Gaiman's third book was a history of the Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy called Don't Panic, which Adams described as "devastatingly true – except the bits that are lies." In 2005, after Adams' untimely death, Gaiman wrote an introduction for MJ Simpson's Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams,…

Kaytranada Is Reaching 100% With a new album and chapter in his life, Kaytranada is giving all of himself for the first time. Story by Alex Frank Photography by Alexandra Gavillet Last fall, Louis Kevin Celestin found himself in an unbreakably terrible mood. As Kaytranada, he had sold out shows all…

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Profiles November 20, 2011 The credo of Thiel’s venture-capital firm: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”Photograph by Robert Maxwell Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare…

Daniel Munoz / Reuters The title of the financial historian William Goetzmann’s new book is hard to argue with: Money Changes Everything. In his book, Goetzmann, a professor of finance and the director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management, has documented how…

This image was removed due to legal reasons. The news Monday that billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel will run as a super delegate for Donald Trump in California left some in Silicon Valley scr

Video will not save your media business. Nor will bots, newsletters, a “morning briefing” app, a “lean back” iPad experience, Slack integration, a Snapchat channel, or a great partnership with Twitter. All of these things together might help, but even then, you will not be saved by the magical New…

Where to?, by Jonathan O’Donnell on Flickr. I’ve been seeing a lot of applications lately where the methods section starts something like this: In this project, we adopt a mixed methods approach… It is a statement that I’m coming to loathe, because the author is generally saying: Warning: muddled…

Last April I was invited to a literary fundraiser of sorts. It was a fancy affair, full of very wealthy people and well-dressed waiters carrying trays of wine and strange-looking appetizers. A couple of dozen writers had been invited, and we were plied with alcohol and dispersed into the party. I…

This is In Real Terms, a column analyzing the week in economic news. Comments? Criticisms? Ideas for future columns? Email me or drop a note in the comments. Here’s how the process of writing this column usually goes: On Monday and Tuesday, I collect potential material — articles, data, academic…

“In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site,” reports the New York Times . The writers add: “The Times and Facebook are moving closer to…

Cultural Comment April 18, 2016 More than just a music festival, Coachella is also a fully formed aesthetic and a whirlpool of commercial potential.Photograph by Rachel Murray / Getty I’ve never been to Coachella, and yet it surrounds me at all times. Coachella is a music festival—and now an…

I have never told the story of my husband’s illness. His illness is not my illness, and so I did not think it was my story to tell. But the illness is a third party in our relationship. I have been in a relationship with the illness for eleven years. So in this way, perhaps, it is my story too.…

: The only things I have done tonight are masturbate and scroll through Cardi B’s Instagram until my wrist hurt. I am wearing a promotional Sopranos T-shirt that reads, “I WANNA MADE MAN” [sic], but what I really want is to have a drink. In order to convince myself that this is not the wave—the skin…

News Desk March 30, 2016 Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, and her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. A scandal engulfing Rousseff’s Presidency has put the future of Brazil’s social compact at risk.Photograph by Igo Estrela / Getty Richard Nixon was reëlected overwhelmingly in November,…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday, 720 pp., $30.00 1. The title of Hanya Yanagihara’s second work of fiction stands in almost comical contrast to its length: at 720 pages, it’s one of the biggest…

Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel, The People in the Trees, deserved a wider audience than it found: the self-justifying memoir of a prizewinning, pioneering scientist who took boys from a remote Pacific island culture back to the US, where he raised and abused them, it is linguistically and…

LECTURAS NO OBLIGATORIAS ‘Lancha rápida’, de Renata Adler, es una narración fragmentaria, singular, adictiva Virginia Collera 25 mar 2015 - 16:26Actualizado: 27 mar 2015 - 00:09CET Compartir en Facebook Compartir en Bluesky Compartir en Linkedin Copiar enlace El célebre fotógrafo Richard Avedon…

1. El meme del día después del Día de la Memoria fue una nota de Clarín intitulada “Macri volvió a entregar contenido exclusivo a un medio extranjero”. La columna de Juan Marcos Bouthemy [1] argumenta que Mauricio Macri cedió todo el contenido “íntimo” generado en torno a la visita de Barack Obama a…

Annals of Technology March 25, 2016 After barely a day of consciousness, Microsoft’s chat bot Tay became a racist, sexist, trutherist, genocidal maniac.Image from Twitter Tay was born pure. She loved E.D.M., in particular the work of Calvin Harris. She used words like “swagulated” and almost never…

The internet has been part of our lives for long enough that a generation of writers and artists has come of age with it, and used it as a tool to construct their creative and professional identities.

The Pretentious Summer Superhero WHERE do a movie critic's thoughts turn during the long, hectic months of summer? Why, to Shakespeare and Sophocles, of course, and also to Hegel, Jung, Freud, Plato,

Directo, procaz, confrontador, a Manuel Bernardes su particular estilo le granjeó simpatías y le dio detractores. Su público lo siguió siempre y los medios de comunicación fueron su lugar. Una balacera polémica y ser el único paraguayo en entrevistar al legendario Carlos Santana son hechos que…

No recuerdo exactamente cuándo fue que comencé a escucharlo, pero sí que fue a finales de los años 90, cuando hacía De Remate en Cardinal 730 AM, cuando integraba la otrora Red Privada de Comunicación

There’s a mighty canyon that runs down the middle of the world of the word, carving through bookshops, libraries and literary prizes, splitting them into fiction and nonfiction. Those who try to build bridges over this fissure may find themselves – like Geoff Dyer – rejecting the terms on which they…

If you're one of 500 million people who use Dropbox, it's just a folder on your computer desktop that lets you easily store files on the Internet, send them to others, and synchronize them across your laptop, phone, and tablet. You use this folder, then you forget it. And that's by design. Peer…