The contemporary reader is unhappy. What troubles him? It’s the critics: they are lying to him. He encounters them on the back cover of every new book, promising the world. “An exhilarating debut, poignant and thrilling” . . . “A much-anticipated return, necessary and trenchant” . . . “Dazzling…

A road to somewhere. Dry Zone, Myanmar. Lauren Serota 9 min read· Feb 7, 2022 -- The below was originally written in mid-2020 — it’s still relevant. In May of 2020, Robert Fabricant reached out to practitioners in the frog:Impact alumni community (which he founded, and still fosters), seeking…

Share Prev Choice precedes creativity, and that's what will count The Insight Next Hybrid worlds and how the metaverse will pave the way for entering new realms What would you do if you could live in the internet, even just for a day? Where would you go if you could crawl inside it and paddle…

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At a startup like Glossier, a surprise department-wide meeting means one of two things: layoffs or treats. So when the tech department of the beauty phenomenon — well, what was then its tech department — was asked to gather for a visit from founder and CEO Emily Weiss on a late spring day in 2019, a…

It’s 1997 and I want to be cool. About to be twelve, and my mother, understanding the urgency of the mission, has finally agreed to let me shop in the grown-up section—albeit of a vintage store, Alice Underground, on lower Broadway. (For once in my life I am small, under-sized in fact, and she says…

In January, debut author Sean Thor Conroe published a novel called Fuccboi , about a young writer with bad skin who goes around calling various women “bae.” If you follow contemporary fiction, whether

“It’s gone viral and sparked an interest nationwide,” said Democratic Washington state Sen. Jesse Salomon, who is sponsoring a bill that would allow psilocybin use among adults over age 21 under supervision. “I just didn’t know there were so many like-minded people on this.” Oregon led the nation…

Page-Turner December 5, 2012 Half a century has passed since the Life World Library was launched, in 1961. Today, its volumes languish in Internet bookstores, begging for takers at less than a dollar. They are cheapened by their age, their association with the mass-market Time Life brand (“Mysteries…

Muy a menudo el propio lenguaje y sus palabras ya lo dicen todo. En español la palabra “raíces” ya lo define (Bienes Raices) , es un bien que está ahí y estará siempre ahí, en particular si hablamos d

I grow tired of “queer influencer activists.” You may or may not know the type. Their Instagram feeds are composed of infographics, screenshots of their own or (usually) other people’s tweets, sandwic

Reasons to Love New York New York celebrates the city’s timeless, peerless connection to movies. My Best Friend’s Wedding, 1997. Photo: Ronald Grant Archive/Alamy Stock Photo In 1933’s Only Yesterday, a suave decorator in evening clothes, played by Franklin Pangborn, is enjoying a painting alongside…

The Long View Richard Diebenkorn’s Woman in a Window, 1957.Photo courtesy of Richard Diebenkorn Foundation CALL YOUR BROTHER. Something’s happening.” Lisa, my oldest friend from the small town in Connecticut where we both grew up, has phoned as I’m heading out from my office in New York City’s…

The New Yorker Interview The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever. February 15, 2022 Illustration by Jules Julien; Source photograph by Kevin Mazur / Getty I first met Stevie Nicks in 2013, when I was about to turn seventeen. At the time, I was…

Meg Yates, better known as Meg Superstar Princess, hangs outside an Office magazine party last week. Photo: The Cobrasnake This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One morning in June, while I was puffing away on my…

Profiles Dearest Edith The inner and outer voyages of Edith Wharton. February 23, 1929 Photograph courtesy Charles Wesley Hearn / Beinecke Library, Yale The aristocratic Mrs. Edith Wharton was born Jones in a fashionable quarter of New York, arriving appropriately during the quarrel between masters…

Quickly and easy calculate your optimal daily intake with our protein intake calculator. A primer on protein digestibility Whether you’ve consumed a one-egg omelet, a 4-pound ribeye steak, or a block of tofu, the proteins in those meals will, for the most part, meet the same fate: first, they’ll be…

Table of Contents Toggle Read Time: 9 minutes Before we get into the details, there is one thing above all else that it is important to grasp if you want results that last. If you want to keep your results, you must be willing to approach this as a change to your lifestyle. If your intent is to “go…

Dept. of Science All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view. November 1, 2021 The tireless project jugglers, the calendar maximizers: how do they do it?Illustration by Nolan Pelletier For months, during the main pandemic stretch,…

The New Yorker Interview December 9, 2018 Photograph by Ernesto Urdaneta From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days. The psychotherapist Esther Perel knows how to work a room. Since the…

5-10-15-20 The author talks about the songs that have defined him, five years at a time. July 25, 2017 Photo by Adrian Cook In Jonathan Lethem’s books, music isn’t merely a soundtrack; it offers a safety rope, a sense of higher purpose, and a backbeat for satire. See Lionel Essrog, the Tourettic…

Every day, unless I forget, I take two pills. One is oblong and beige and burns my throat quite badly if I attempt to swallow it dry. The other is round and white. They are antidepressants, though dif

I pride myself on my incorrigible correctness. I do not tend to have wrong opinions, and it would be very unlike me to say something that did not portray the genuine state of things. Jumbo blueberries

Personal History Pearls After thirty years together, sleeping is the new having sex. May 10, 2021 For a thirtieth anniversary, you’re supposed to offer pearls, but sheets felt right.Illustration by Karin Söderquist It’s July in West Sussex, and I’m at a garden party, talking with a lawyer who has…

-Your natural salience filter is a great determinant of what’s most alive to you. If you begin to rely on any other filter, you will increasingly record what seems like it should be interesting according to some preexisting criteria rather than what organically sticks to your mind. This is a…

“I think we need to bring back shame,” is something I’ve said many times as a glib half-joke a few drinks deep on a night out. I have thought it to myself after seeing an Instagram post from someone “

There are some questions that are perfectly suited to be discussed at the bar after you’ve had a few beers with your pals and everyone has finished complaining about work and gossiping about acquainta

Twenty-eight year-old Los Angeleno Mohammad is used to getting attention on the internet. As someone in the r/NattyOrJuice subreddit described him, he “has the body of an action star” and the “face of a comedy relief character.” By that, they mean Mohammad is incredibly buff, and also has a…

It requires no special insight to conclude that they fuck you up, your mom and dad. Still, attachment theory is having a new moment, laundering the observation through its Duplo-sized conceptual vocab

Page-Turner October 17, 2011 Birding is the opposite of being at the movies—you’re outside, not sitting in a windowless box; you’re stalking wild animals, not looking at pictures of them. You’re dependent on weather, geography, time of day—if you miss the prothonotary warbler, there isn’t a midnight…

Photo: Amanda Demme This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By the time you finish reading A Little Life, you will have spent a whole book waiting for a man to kill himself. The novel, the second from author Hanya…

Joan Didion, who died last month, embodied cool in its multifarious meanings: stylishness, reserve, aplomb, proportion, idiosyncrasy and poise. Cool always has its superficial aspects, like the “iconi

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Letter from Silicon Valley The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for? October 27, 2021 Illustration by Nikita Iziev; Source photograph by Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg / Getty Silicon Valley is not a milieu known for glamour and charisma. Still, Peter Thiel has…

Books of The Times Credit.... AmazonApple BooksBarnes & NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The figure of the modeling agent must be up there with the personal injury lawyer and the tobacco lobbyist as…

Page-Turner April 29, 2016 To read the Hungarian writer Magda Szabó’s “The Door” is to feel turned inside out—as if our own foibles have been written in soap on the mirror, to be read when we wake up from the trance of our own self-importance.Photograph by INTERFOTO / Alamy On a recent cold, rainy…

JAMES SANSUM entered the elegant parlor room of his Upper East Side antiques gallery, with its rare artworks and precious knickknacks, followed by a frisky miniature poodle. Dressed in khakis and a blue-and-white checked shirt, Mr. Sansum, a 36-year-old Harvard graduate, looked more like an…

Eve Babitz’s singular take on Los Angeles. Babitz, as pictured on the first edition of Eve’s Hollywood. Years ago, a friend gave me a first edition of Eve Babitz’s second book, Slow Days, Fast Company (1974), which had slipped out of print. Tucked inside was a promotional photo of the author on…

A golden girl in the Golden State, Eve Babitz, the daughter of a well-regarded Hollywood studio musician and goddaughter to Stravinsky, was seen—in all the places you go to be seen in Los Angeles—before she was heard. Her first book, the glossy, memoiristic essay collection Eve’s Hollywood (1972;…