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 June 13, 2022 HBR Staff/Getty Images/Jerome Tisne/Yuichiro Chino Summary. Leer en españolLer em português 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…

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…

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…

Once in a psychoanalysis session, I cried and laughed at the same time. The energies of each separate, simultaneous outburst seemed to feed each other until I was both cackling in an almost crazed fashion and wailing wretchedly. It was as strange as it sounds. And once it had started, it seemed as…

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

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. By April 13,…

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 The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social Facebook, TikTok and Twitter seem to be increasingly connecting users with brands and influencers. To restore a sense of community, some users

“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…

“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.”– Chris Dixon The smartest builders and thinkers I know spend their weekends, and often most of

Long before the invention of the general-purpose computer, bureaucrats and researchers had begun gathering and cross-tabulating sets of numbers about populations—heights, weights, ages, sexes, races, political parties, incomes—using punch cards and tabulating machines. By the nineteen-thirties,…

Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships. “Mating” is a novel for people who particularly love novels. Lately it has found its evangelists by word of mouth.Credit...Rachel Stern for The New York Times By March 29, 2023…

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Sasha Frere-Jones In the prose stylist’s indelible writing, so many right notes the wrong notes don’t matter. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse, New York Review Books, 283 pages, $18.95 • • •…

Rabbit Holes Exrx.net is little changed since the days of Yahoo GeoCities and dial-up and saying “www” aloud. Yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium. March 3, 2023 Illustration by Pablo Delcan In twelve years of lifting weights, I can’t say that I’ve ever attempted a…

Page-Turner August 18, 2016 Oliver Sacks’ greatest gift was sensitivity—seeing, feeling, and sketching what the rest of us had never even noticed.Photograph by Andrea Artz / Redux A year ago, I lost my best friend, Oliver Sacks. For many years, each week, Oliver and I would cruise north on the West…

Page-Turner January 5, 2016 “I remember all our swims together—we are both water creatures,” Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death, wrote in a letter to Henri Cole.Photograph courtesy Henri Cole Oliver Sacks swam until he died. He believed swimming was instinctive, and that we must learn to…

A Critic at Large A Singular Woman For half a century, Elizabeth Hardwick has cut a figure in American letters. July 5, 1998 “Women writers don’t tend to be passive vessels, saying, ‘Oh, that’s good, dear,’ ” Hardwick observes.Photograph by Max Vadukul In the winter of 1949, Robert Lowell, perhaps…

Once upon a time, a certain kind of fairy tale goes, the most interesting and articulate minds in the world converged in dank Manhattan apartments to debate the merits of literary fiction and Trotskyist politics over cocktails. This is the story of the New York Intellectuals, of the minds and…

Life and Letters December 10, 2007 After Lowry published “Under the Volcano,” in 1947, he was hailed as a successor to Joyce. His wife, Margerie, edited the book.DAVID HUGHES . Malcolm Lowry died in his cottage in the village of Ripe, in Sussex, late at night on June 26, 1957, or early the next…

For a while now, the media has been debating the cause of a wave of teenage unhappiness in the U.S. The other day, the Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz posted a series of tweets in which she argued the main reason teens are unhappy is simply that they realize the world around them is a…

Guest Essay Feb. 3, 2023 Gawker staff members in telephone rooms at the company’s Lower Manhattan office in 2015.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times By Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and digital media strategist. She was the editor in chief of The New York Observer…

In our Winter issue, we published Mieko Kanai’s “Tap Water,” a story whose remarkable first sentence spills across more than two pages and describes the interior of the narrator’s new apartment as if it were the architecture of her emotional landscape. Who among us has not resolved to stop obsessing…

Persons of Interest At the Times, Paul often writes on the hazards of shifting norms. But she’s also revealed the fraught position of the opinion columnist. January 24, 2023 Illustration by Núria Just Pamela Paul and I met twice, in the same Times conference room, and on both occasions she wore a…

Mike Hadreas, the musician known as Perfume Genius, recently binge-watched the early-aughts teen drama Gilmore Girls for the first time. I know this from Twitter . As a Perfume Genius fan, and as some

If you’ve ever read one of Naomi Fry’s pieces for The New Yorker — or follow her on social media, for that matter — you know that her sense of humor and ability to curate culture into text (from highbrow art all the way to reality tv) is unparalleled. When she isn’t at home spending “too much” time…

Making the rounds this week was a mundane critique of AI that was notable mainly because it was made by musician Nick Cave, who was unsurprisingly unimpressed by ludicrous ChatGPT efforts to mimic his songwriting. Cave writes: Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon…

Is it easier or more difficult to build high-performing teams in a value-driven context compared to traditional business set-ups? After receiving user feedback that our Team Kit approach works particularly well in NGOs, we began to consider this question. The short answer to the question is no,…