Editor’s note: This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering leadership, personal development and performance through the lens of sports. Follow Peak here. When Joe Maddon managed in the major leagues, he plastered his favorite saying on a hoodie: “Feel is the gift of experience.” Maddon,…

A Critic at Large Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened? August 25, 2025 Writers are increasingly expected not just to take pop music seriously but to celebrate it—or else.Illustration by Hudson Christie When I was growing up, a critic was a…

David Brooks July 10, 2025 Credit...Alec Soth/Magnum Listen to this article · 9:53 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and…

Fiction My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age June 9, 2002 Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum My father had decided to teach me how to grow old. I said O.K. My children didn’t think it was such a great idea. If I knew how, they thought, I might do so too easily. No, no, I said,…

Open Questions For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. June 17, 2025 Photograph by Balarama Heller You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t…

City life experienced without earbuds is a good thing. Photo: Amir Hamja/The New York Times/Redux I have a fresh item on my curmudgeonly, ever-lengthening mental catalogue titled What’s Ruining New York Now? In addition to such ordinary and eccentric scourges as rats (actual and metaphorical),…

Nonfiction “Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt. Andrea Long ChuCredit...Beowulf Sheehan By Charles Finch is the author, most recently, of “What Just Happened,” a chronicle of 2020. April 8,…

“Citizens felt alienated by ABC’s lack of responsiveness & lack of integrity, running roughshod over our democratic institutions, firing the park board, pausing the work of the integrity commissioner, barely showing up to council meetings..” https://t.co/gNgH1BfVFY #EvictKenSim — COPE: Coalition…

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Americans and Europeans have been guided through our new century by what I will call the politics of inevitability – a sense that the future is just more of…

The Fraud is out now from Penguin Press. Illustration: Uli Knörzer This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Zadie Smith’s first book, White Teeth, was the English comic novel on bath salts. Published to universal…

A buzzy night spot was the party venue for a magazine that is “the last of its kind.” Holden Seidlitz, a New Yorker fact-checker, leafed through the magazine’s 100th anniversary issue, with the mascot Eustace Tilley on the cover.Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times A buzzy night spot was…

Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Jan. 23, 2025 Credit...Pablo Delcan By Opinion Writer The novelist David Lodge, who died this month, had a great bit in his campus satire “Changing Places,” the first in a trilogy. English professors play the game “Humiliation,” which requires admitting that…

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Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Jan. 23, 2025 Credit...Pablo Delcan By Opinion Writer The novelist David Lodge, who died this month, had a great bit in his campus satire “Changing Places,” the first in a trilogy. English professors play the game “Humiliation,” which requires admitting that…

My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading. Now it’s more likely to trigger sheepish admissions from partygoers about not reading as much as they’d like to — as if I’m going to spring a pop quiz on Moby-Dick. Long gone are the…

Tech Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself? TechAsleep at the Wheel in the…

Bryan Müller is one of the most revered, guarded and notoriously principled artists working in electronic music. For his first all-access profile, he lets…

Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film — and a century of cinema history — is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, returning after more than a decade. Visitors can catch Christian Marclay’s “The Clock,” at the Museum of Modern Art until Feb. 17, 2025.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times By…

Nigerian cuisine with a twist, live reggae and a bustling market: Here’s where — and how — to experience the British capital’s vibrant and multifaceted Black communities. Brixton Village market in South London has restaurants, produce stores and shops selling jewelry, clothing, art and…

The New Yorker Festival October 18, 2009 At the talk “The Death of the Master Builder: A Story of Risk, Medicine, and Skyscrapers,” Atul Gawande built on the ideas he elucidated in his 2007 article, “The Checklist,” about the surprising impact of basic checklists in reducing complications from…

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“He has no clothes on!” shouted the little boy, pointing to the emperor, and what everyone in the crowd had thought, they began to say among themselves. Then again, he was just a little boy, and they

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Last November, Kanye West stopped by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to deliver a three-minute manifesto on the state of architecture today. Standing atop a drafting table in the middle

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With temperatures heating up, tree canopies have an important role to play in cooling residents. But new data says Vancouver has been losing tree coverage and adding pavement, making for dangerous conditions when extreme weather hits. 🌳 https://t.co/t8xzH6UunQ — The Tyee (@TheTyee) Aug 8,…

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@TSSRovers seal the double in chaotic Altitude final Report ⬇️ https://t.co/4A94ytKrQb https://t.co/Jr0VpdwYVg — Corey Almond (@oconalmond) Aug 6, 2024 Tweeted by @oconalmond

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Canadaland should be crediting the Star's @andy_takagi, who had this bright idea a few weeks ago https://t.co/dNarszGqhE https://t.co/oi2tEjZqiY — Ben Spurr (@BenSpurr) Jul 29, 2024 Tweeted by @BenSpurr