Photographs by Michael Friberg Image above: The Oquirrh Mountain Temple sits about 20 miles south of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, where the Church is based. This article was published online on December 16, 2020. To meet with the prophet during a plague, certain protocols must be followed. It’s…
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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: Marie Tomanova Dasha Nekrasova is hungry, and she’s not interested in patiently waiting her turn. It’s after 3 p.m. on a Sunday, but the West Village restaurant Bar…
Profiles On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke “I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy. December 5, 2021 Adam McKay says of Strong’s portrayal of Kendall Roy, “He’s not playing it like a comedy. He’s playing it like he’s Hamlet.”Photograph…
Photo by Dean Kissick Dean Kissick is a writer and Spike’s New York Editor. Dean has written for Interview, Civilization, The Drunken Canal, and The New York Times, among others. His monthly Spike column, The Downward Spiral, has over the past few years become the one thing online I consistently and…
In his analysands' chair, 2000. Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist and would become the principal at Charing Cross Hospital, in London. He also worked for seventeen years in the National…
Sometimes, when I’m having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driv
In 2013, the Irish writer Sally Rooney, then only twenty-two, was the top debater at the European University Debating Championships. This might seem unusual for a would-be novelist. One assumes that if one were that skilled at public speaking, one would not, subsequently, take to one’s desk in…
Reflections April 28, 2008 ZOHAR LAZAR When I was in fourth grade, my class took a field trip to the American Tobacco plant in nearby Durham, North Carolina. There we witnessed the making of cigarettes and were given free packs to take home to our parents. I tell people this and they ask me how old…
Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I’ll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely used graphical web browser, Mosaic, which as I see it makes him one of the inventors of the internet. He co-founded Netscape and various other companies. He also co-founded the venture capital firm…
To call Natalie Wynn a YouTuber seems like a terrible understatement. On a platform awash in makeup tutorials, guys playing video games, horrible comedy and conspiracy theorists, Wynn – whose YouTube channel is called ContraPoints – is someone truly original: a provocateuse, a video essayist and a…
At the end of Miranda Popkey’s novel Topics of Conversation, there is a short section titled “Works (Not) Cited.”1 She writes, “This manuscript emerged in part from an engagement with and in some cases refers elliptically to the following texts, televisions shows, films, web series, works of art,…
A Reflection on Meals, Growing Up, and Gathering Text: Thessaly La Force Like most people I know, I didn’t learn to cook until I was out of college. What need did an 18-year-old have for it? I was a freshman at Columbia, newly transplanted from northern California. I roamed free in this palatial…
The distinction between fixed personality and willed character is murky. Could improving your personality be a moral duty? It’s tempting to think that we’re obliged to improve some areas of our personality, while other aspects of who we are are less malleable but more morally neutral. Maybe we…
Remy Duran at 1:33 am. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar This article originally appeared in are u coming?, a newsletter about the return of New York nightlife. Sign up here. Remy Duran is the kind of club kid who makes you wonder how he could possibly keep going — someone who sees nightlife as his…
Nan Goldin Leslie Camhi Memory Lost, the photographer’s first New York solo show in five years. Nan Goldin, Memory Lost, 2019–21 (installation view). Digital slideshow; 24 minutes, 16 seconds. Photo: Alex Yudzon. © Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin: Memory Lost, Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West Fifty-Seventh…
Why is everyone still talking about Christopher Lasch? An intellectual of the generation that came of age in the Fifties, he began his career something of a Marxist but, by the time of his death in 1994, had settled on a politics that combined an intransigent anti-capitalism with traditional stances…
There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusiast, one day gained access to a time machine and decided to take a trip back several decades to the…
Apart from closing for repairs several years ago and a few days after 9/11, Balthazar has been open every day for the last 23 years. And then—COVID hit Six other restaurants of mine have shut their doors due to the pandemic, but none affected me as much as Balthazar’s closing. The idea of a large,…
SOPHIE, 2019. Photo: Renata Raksha. SOPHIE BELONGED TO THE FUTURE. At the last SOPHIE concert I attended, the central item on the merch table was a black T-shirt with white lettering. LIVE IN PERSON! SOPHIE LA000010302017, it announced. Four zeroes ahead of the date, four powers of ten for us to…
The Leather Boys Sukhdev Sandhu Angry Young (Gay) Men: a South London–set rarity from 1964. Colin Campbell as Reggie and Dudley Sutton as Pete in The Leather Boys. Courtesy Vinegar Syndrome and American Genre Film Archive. The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, available to watch via…
I’m still processing Sophie’s life... her nature, her work, her beauty. She was laser-focused and exceptionally intelligent, but also sensitive and perceptive. It didn’t matter whether we were talking about people or relationships or materials or music - she approached every topic with the love,…
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Art Georg Baselitz, German Neo-Expressionist Who Painted the World Upside Down, Dies at 88 Jade Poleon | May 01, 2026 Georg Baselitz, the German painter and sculptor whose inverted canvases and raw confrontations with his country’s history made him one of the defining artists of the postwar era,…
in a toxic relationship, your mental and physical wounds may never heal. As the old say
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: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler Catapult, 265 pp., $26.00 Why do I feel so bad all the time is the question asked by so many young people…
. “I know you identify as a reject, I know that’s, like, your ‘brand,’ like it’s some unprecedented form of suffering that gives you secret wisdom. All this nonstop high-frequency whining, that’s what’s facile.”
If navigating the internet were an Olympic sport, Patricia Lockwood would sweep the medals. She is not a coder or a programmer (though surely she could be). She doesn’t live in the internet but upon it. She sails along on trends and tweets, a fisher of men, understanding, as she writes, that…
Dear writing career, Sorry for doing this by letter. But I want you to be able to come back to this after the spite has worn off. Eventually you’ll understand that this was the best outcome for both of us. The truth is that you’re not doing it for me anymore. There, I ripped off the Band-Aid. You’ve…
I am a 21 year old senior in college. I am in desperate need for advice on how to lose weight. I am a biology major trying to get into med school and between school and two jobs it seems like I don’t have time for friends and family let alone working out and eating healthy. I tried meal prepping but…
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: L. Busacca/WireImage The New York Times’s Framing Britney Spears documentary casts a spell. I am thinking specifically of the stretch that chronicles Spears’s rise as a…
Since its consolidation at the end of the eighteenth century, the realist novel has been the premier vehicle for the depiction of contemporary life. For over two hundred years, a relatively fixed set of representational techniques – point-of-view, voice, description, dialogue, plot – has managed to…
No One Is Talking About This Sasha Frere-Jones A debut novel from Patricia Lockwood, author of the memoir Priestdaddy. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books, 205 pages, $25 • • • Patricia Lockwood—and I cannot stress this enough—is neither a dog nor a twin, but if she…
(Cross-posted from my blog) The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1. If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google reddit. You’ll get real people arguing, as…
Office Space How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to. November 17, 2020 As the obligations of knowledge work have grown increasingly frenetic, workers have flocked to productivity tools and techniques.Illustration by Timo Lenzen In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web…
“This is now a pious wife account,” the poet Rachel Rabbit White recently declared on Instagram, alongside a portrait with Nico Walker: the veteran turned convict, the author of Cherry, the co-conspirator in their mutual infatuation. To those familiar with Rabbit White’s work—exhaled verses that…
November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already…
0. Intro The end of trends has been heralded by various outlets for years (see here, here and many more on our Are.na channel). But COVID time is crazy. We had a hunch that the hype cycle itself was finally in its true death throes – related to economic collapse, popular uprising, a general sense of…
A father's story. One windy day in May 2002, my young children, Jasper and Daisy, who were 8 and 5, spent the morning cutting, pasting and coloring notes and welcome banners for their brother's homecoming. They had not seen Nick, who was arriving from college for the summer, in six months. In the…
Monte Reel Published February 20, 2013 12:00AM Day three aboard this muggy cargo boat and I’m still incapable of turning around without bumping into a hanging bag of oranges, or a sack of wheat flour, or a jug of cooking oil. Crammed to the rafters with rapidly perishing produce, the Aquidaban is as…
A BRICK HOUSE CRUMBLES in the village of Veselovka, Russia, just a few miles from Kaliningrad. It’s said that Immanuel Kant had something to do with this house back when the region was part of Prussia (and when Kaliningrad was known as Königsberg), but what, exactly, is not clear. Ambiguities such…
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