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…
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A Critic at Large A Singular Woman For half a century, Elizabeth Hardwick has cut a figure in American letters. July 6, 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 Malcolm Lowry’s mysterious demise. 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…
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 See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on…
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,…
Developer compensation has skyrocketed since the demise of the Google et al. wage-suppressing no-hire agreement, to the point where compensation rivals and maybe even exceeds compensation in traditionally remunerative fields like law, consulting, etc. In software, "senior" dev salary at a…
The New Yorker Interview The director-actor-writer-producer talks about uncoupling with his brother and creative partner, his role in Season 2 of the HBO drama “Industry,” and his most ambitious project yet: “a comedy relationship movie, thriller-action movie, mystery, coming-of-age story.” July 17,…
Download a special PDF version of this memo here In early 2020, right before the pandemic, we released a memo titled The Umami Theory of Value. Written as a kind of elegy for the experience economy and the excesses of the preceding decade, we’ve been quite happy how, in retrospect, it managed to…
“The anti-American obsession: it’s all in me, I confess. America is terrifying. Its internal unbalances appear extreme (economic, cultural, racial), an unimaginable fragility. It concerns us closely as a mirror of the future — our future, if we still have one.” Thus ran the closing paragraph of a…
1. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. An ambitious project—but sensible, I think. And it seems to me that contemporary American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition—a modesty, alas, genuine…if sometimes accompanied by vast pretense. Of…
Community college was paradise. The cost per credit was $16 and the campus resembled an outlet mall. My classmates included people of all ages, races, creeds, and stages of pregnancy. Due to budget cuts the library was open for about 20 minutes a day and the cafeteria had been requisitioned as a…
The funny thing about sleeplessness is how action-packed it is. Late last night I lay in bed doing my best to mimic a corpse while my brain played pinball. I switched to my stomach, back, side. Opened two windows. Took off nightgown. Put nightgown back on. Arranged myself diagonally across the bed,…
Guest Essay Dec. 28, 2022 Credit...Ali Asaei for The New York Times See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey…
Jumpsuit by Fendi. Glasses Stylist’s Own. In Cinnamon in the Wind, Kate Berlant’s 2019 stand-up special, released this year after lingering in a kind of post-production purgatory, the 35-year-old comedian briefly dangles a carrot of autobiography to her audience. It’s a rare moment for a performer…
From Mary Manning’s portfolio Ciao! in issue no. 242. The sadness of thinking about a year in reading is how little of it endures! As I try to recover lost time by rereading the terrible handwriting in my journal I find so many abandoned or forgotten books, and even the ones that remained in my…
Five weeks to the day after my debut novel was published, my boyfriend, who is a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer. I’ve been a writer for a long time. So has he. Until this summer, he was unquestionably the more publicly prominent one. When I told my friends about the breakup, they…
Poolside at the home of collector Tony Tamer. Photo by author. LARRY GAGOSIAN DIDN’T FLY DOWN for the twentieth anniversary of Art Basel Miami Beach. This was described to me by Vanity Fair’s art reporter Nate Freeman as “gossip.” And perhaps, were I an art reporter, it would strike me as such. At a…
Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war,” he begins. Gates is speaking at TED’s flagship conference, held in…
"...the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day." – Charles Dickens July 2009 One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the…
This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on this topic, the implications are less clear: Writing is the planning process and the final product:…
Spam is rampant Running your own server is a major pain If you aren't on gmail, gmail assumes you're sending spam Everyone else is on gmail Attachment limits are obnoxious and arbitrary Nobody knows how to validate addresses Configuring TLS, SPF, DKIM, submission, etc. is confusing Random DNSBLs…
Last year, when my mother moved apartments, I came into possession of a largeish Prada box full of my childhood diaries. They go from 1981—I was four, and dictated the diary to my aunt—up to the nineties. I still haven’t read most of them. (I think it was a handbag, and not a small one, that…
Vitalik Buterin is one of the most well-known and best-loved figures in the crypto/blockchain world — well-known because Ethereum, the blockchain platform he co-created (with Gavin Wood) has become the platform for the entire web3 world, and best-loved because he’s very clearly just a smart,…
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"Sam Bankman-Fried" by Cointelegraph is licensed under CC BY 3.0. I was going to get up and write about the election today, but the Democrats did so unexpectedly well that control of both the House and the Senate is still uncertain. So I think I’ll write a post about the other big thing that just…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When I pictured Matthew Perry, the actor frequently known as Chandler Bing, I saw him on the tangerine couch at Central Perk or seated on one of the twin recliners in the apartment he shared with Joey Tribbiani.
You fucked up real good, kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation and possibly cause grievous damage to your…
Happy spooky season, ghouls! While in Berlin I recorded an episode on my fave galaxy-brain podcast New Models, where we discussed the changing landscape of drugs—from legalization grifts to “spectrum sobriety” and the gentrification of club drugs. I got so caught up with the report on weird club…
A knight plays chess with death in Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal Angelicism01 is a fascinating newsletter that's enjoyed some well-deserved buzz over the past year. Calling itself “theoretical gossip
Culture Desk The Oakland-based newsletter has created a new way of talking about style and design. December 10, 2021 Each dispatch evokes the zine era, from the luridly Photoshopped collages to a spastic writing voice that careens down the page in a stream of florid, hypebeast doggerel.Image…
Photo: Creston Funk If you’re a prodigious reader of liner notes, you’ve probably seen Jon Brion’s name somewhere over the last 30 years. Brion garnered attention among the blossoming ’90s singer-songwriter set as a producer, session player, and finisher, a guy who shows up with dozens of…
Monday, 0400h. Outside the desert air blew cold and tight and I felt sorry for myself. A man named William in a Hyundai Tucson picked me up from the tawdry STRAT Hotel, Casino & Skypod where I’d blown
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