Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”) Published Oct. 15, 2023Updated Oct. 31, 2025 People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a circus performer juggle…

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, and birthed children from their gaping necks. He’s pulled people’s faces off to reveal Dennis Rodman,…

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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. Still, then again people on LinkedIn seem to have a certain kind of brain that only lets them post…

Early career by September 12, 2023 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 hard work were doled out for decades. The underlying assumption was…

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 surveys on the internet. If you’re new to my work, I’m a self-taught researcher, driven to learn through…

Books The X-Man How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain. September 11, 2023 Day by day, Musk’s companies control more of the Internet, the power grid, the transportation system, objects in orbit, the nation’s security infrastructure, and its energy supply.Photograph by Mark Mahaney…

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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 Failed” contains within itself a number of other questions (failed at what? Failed whom? Why are we…

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, of processing my actions and how they affected him. When I would attempt to assert my…

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 modeled after Socialist Realism, which likewise provided “not depictions of real events, but…

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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 robbed of something, some pleasure of life,” he said in 1976. “I’m not complaining, but it’s a little…

Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's Soho boutique. The New York Review of Books was celebrating its new collection with the downtown designer, and the editor Emily Greenhouse had invited five contributors to…

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 democracy with concern that this regime neutralizes the higher types of human beings, those capable…

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, Vampire Weekend, Kele Okereke, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits; middle row: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, St.…

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 behaviors.” They use an adversarial model to generate “suffixes” that can be added to any prompt to…

“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 shortlist of America’s greatest living writers. Oates, whose latest is the unsettling short-story…

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

Annals of Inquiry The theory behind C.B.T. rests on an unlikely idea—that we can be rational after all. July 10, 2023 Illustration by Evan Cohen 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…

Outdoor Voices, founded by Tyler Haney in 2014, became a lifestyle choice as much as a clothing brand. Credit...Sarah Karlan for The New York Times How Outdoor Voices, a Start-Up Darling, Imploded The

Credits Joe Zadeh is a contributing writer for Noema based in Newcastle. In 1929, one of Germany’s national newspapers ran a picture story featuring globally influential people who, the headline proclaimed, “have become legends.” It included the former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the Russian…

My personal inbox, as it stands, is largely useless. Of the 100 emails I can see at a glance, two of them are things I asked for — changes to a profile, an order receipt – and the rest are adverts from companies that I have absolutely unsubscribed from. One is for a perfume company that I once used…

Agile and DevOps are two software development methodologies with similar aims; getting the end-product out as quickly and efficiently as possible. While many organizations are eager to employ these practices, there is often some confusion between the two. What does each methodology encompass? Where…

Managing yourself by June 13, 2022 HBR Staff/Getty Images/Jerome Tisne/Yuichiro Chino When facing moral dilemmas or other thorny challenges at work, you may be tempted to Google how others have handled the issue or to reach for your college ethics class textbook or even a trade book on a specific…

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 27, 2023, honoring Peter Thiel with the tenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society. I was involved in a good many campus and culture wars for almost a decade, in the late…

Diego Viana es un veterinario e investigador brasileño originario del estado de Mato Grosso do Sul en Brasil. Viana forma parte y es el líder del proyecto Felinos Pantaneros del Instituto Homem Pantaneiro, donde se encargan de múltiples actividades que van desde monitorear a los jaguares que se…

Credit...Marcus Schaefer for The New York Times The Great Read The novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking. Credit...Marcus Schaefer for The New York Times Published May 2, 2023Updated May 8, 2023 Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm Perhaps with no…

Michael Borremans, The Devil’s Dress (II), 2011 For many years I’ve been in desperate search of taste. I think people wrongly assume that your taste is a birthright, that it will fall into your lap. I don’t think so. I think you have to run after it. That was what I was doing all those years when I…

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The​ problem with biography is that it’s impossible. Have you ever tried to write down the thoughts, the emotions, the memories that bubble up in a person over sixty seconds; where she is; what she’s wearing; what she can smell, taste and hear; who she’s with; what she’s saying; not to mention what…

Welcome to another week of Dear Duolingo, an advice column just for language learners. Catch up on past installments here. Hi there, learners! This week's Duolingo is brought to you by Mykhaylo Zakryzhevskyy—who's written about learning multiple languages and offered grammar tips for English…

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BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long. Clockwise from top left, Night Noroña, Oriana Riley, Sondra Tarmoedji and Sunny Tang, whose daily lives often involve sitting in front of a computer. April 13, 2023…

Ellis Hamburger was a reporter for The Verge between 2012 and 2014 before leaving to work at Snapchat. After leaving Snap last year, he went to work at The Browser Company. We asked Ellis to write about what he learned during his time working for one of the hottest social media startups of the…

Tech Fix Facebook, TikTok and Twitter seem to be increasingly connecting users with brands and influencers. To restore a sense of community, some users are trying smaller social networks. Credit...Derek Abella April 19, 2023 See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra…

“Social media is, in many ways, becoming less social,” Brian X. Chen writes in a recent New York Times article. “The kinds of posts where people update friends and family about their lives have become harder to see over the years as the biggest sites have become increasingly ‘corporatized.’ Instead…

If you want to read a poorly researched fluff piece about Sam Bankman-Fried, feel free to go to the New York Times (PDF). If you want to understand what happened at Alameda Research and how Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), Sam Trabucco, and Caroline Ellison incinerated over $20 billion dollars of fund…