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,…

Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage 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…

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.

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, Baudrillard, Dostoyevsky and Homer. We are professionals, after all, grimly aware of our responsibilities as interpreters of culture.…

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…

Once relegated to the realm of counterculture, the tattoo has become a ubiquitous presence in the fashion industry of late. From ** Cara Delevingne ’**s “Made In England” foot stamp to SpongeBob bicep

AS MÚLTIPLAS E IMPRESSIONANTES crises que assombram o Brasil agora atraem substancialmente a atenção da mídia internacional. O que é compreensível, já que o Brasil é o quinto país mais populoso do mundo e a oitava economia do mundo. Sua segunda maior cidade, o Rio de Janeiro, é a sede das Olimpíadas…

Despite promising one of the biggest turnaround stories in the southern hemisphere, President Horacio Cartes has more work to do. Photographer: Norberto Duarte/AFP/Getty Images Last fall, New York University sponsored a lecture entitled “Introducing Paraguay: A Land of Opportunity.” It was an…

CREATIVITY Zendaya just designed a stellar new everyday sneaker with On The Swiss brand’s Cloudzone Moon is a minimalist sneaker concept codesigned by Zendaya and her longtime stylist, Law Roach. CREATIVITY Rebecca Yarros wrote the romantasy you can’t put down and here’s how Entangled Publishing…

When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Another: “MOTHER OF GOD 100K?!?!” An anonymous user…

Es un problema de magnitud. Y de microgéneros. Antes, mucho antes de la automatización de sus recomendaciones, Netflix puso en marcha una verdadera estrategia de contenidos que aplicó ¡a los contenidos que iba a ofrecer! Netflix aplicó una brillante estrategia de contenidos ¡a los contenidos que iba…

It’s hard to think of a movie adaptation of a book that feels truer and more loyal to its source than Room. In part, that’s thanks to the precise environment Emma Donoghue crafted in her Orange Prize-winning 2010 novel, the majority of which was set in an 11-foot by 11-foot insulated space with a…

New York’s Town Hall is a janky half-decrepit theater founded by suffragists in 1921, famous for hosting Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and more recently, A Prairie Home Companion, coming to you live from the tourist-scrum of midtown Manhattan. I was here in January, to get talked at by Senator…

The second sibling of the filmmaking duo known as The Wachowskis has come out as transgender. Lilly Wachowski, 48, sibling of Lana, 50, came out in a statement to Windy City Times, after being threate

Comment American Demagogue March 5, 2016 Illustration by Tom Bachtell Nearly three decades ago, Howard Kaminsky, of Random House, called on the real-estate developer and self-marketing master Donald Trump at his office on Fifth Avenue. Kaminsky brought along a cover design for “Trump: The Art of the…

A Critic at Large Air Head January 24, 2016 A new book argues that, in a networked world, “moving hundreds of bodies around in large vessels will go out of fashion.”Illustration by Joon Mo Kang I fly an average of twice a month these days, usually for work, and although I spent much of my life…

Two business-school researchers have published a literature survey in the Harvard Business Review that makes the case against using performance-pay to motivate senior managers. It's common for executive pay to be largely determined by "performance" in the form of stock performance and other metrics,…

El ex Presidente y Mariscal Francisco Solano López, a pesar de contar con una importante cantidad de detractores y de un número aún mayor de personas que saben poco o nada sobre él, sin dudas ocupa un lugar privilegiado en la opinión pública.

Paul Krugman has a long post on this question, here is part of his bottom line: …the Democratic Party…[is] a coalition of teachers’ unions, trial lawyers, birth control advocates, wonkish (not, not “monkish” — down, spell check, down!) economists, etc., often finding common ground but by no means…

Richard Brody February 18, 2016 In “Deadpool,” Ryan Reynolds’s protagonist is a romantic at heart whose sense of chivalrous love is one with his patriotic fervor.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE LEDERER / TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX / EVERETT The “Deadpool” phenomenon is more fun to observe than “Deadpool” itself is to…

I lost 100 pounds once thanks to a database. This was before the “quantified self” movement, and there were no Fitbits or Fuel Bands to rely on, so I had to devise my own solution. I built a web site that let me observe every calorie and total up how much I’d eaten, and exercised, throughout the…

Midway through the New Testament’s Acts of the Apostles, the Apostle Paul cycles back to tell the astounding story of his transformation from the brutal, quick-tempered Saul of Tarsus to Paul, an orga