Sam Shepard and Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea in 1971. Photograph by David Gahr/Getty He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghosttown in Texas, a rest stop near Pittsburgh, or from Santa Fe, where hewas parked in the desert, listening to the coyotes howling. But…

A curious message appeared on Lana Del Rey’s Twitter near the end of February, the same week she debuted her single “ Love .” “At the stroke of midnight,” it announced, listing dates during each of the next four waning crescent moons. “Ingredients can b found online.” No further explanation; only a…

The multistructured glass and sequoia house in Chester, N.J., is on a property that once belonged to an Olympic horse rider. Credit Stefan Ruiz The hourlong train ride from New York City to Morris County, N.J., cuts through the dreary industrial swamp of the Meadowlands, goes past the concrete…

The first paragraph of E. L. Konigsburg’s 1967 book “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” about two young runaways who become entangled in an art-historical mystery, is a masterpiece of graceful, efficient exposition: Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned…

Just over a month after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, The New York Times launched its first major ad campaign in recent memory. At its center was a powerful, minimalist TV commercial that debuted during the February 26 Academy Awards broadcast. In the spot,…

One More Thing Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership 05.16.17 On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council. He had not been on the agenda, but his presence wasn’t a total surprise. Earlier in the year the man had expressed his…

Dominique Nabokov Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books , early 1980s Bob Silvers, my friend and the editor of The New York Review , died on March 20, shortly after completing the April 6 issue. Together with Barbara Epstein, Jason Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Robert…

J urong Island, a man-made smear of sand, lies just off the southern coast of Singapore. A quarter the size of Nantucket, it is thoroughly given over to the petrochemical industry, so crowded with spindly cracking towers and squat oil-storage tanks that the landscape is a blur of brand names — BASF,…

When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy. After graduation, he moved to Chicago and took classes at the Second City Theatre. Unlike some of his peers…

Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan By Dec. 14, 2016 Prologue: You Are What You…

President Obama in the Oval Office on Friday during an interview with Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for The New York Times.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for The New York Times, interviewed President Obama about literature on Friday at the…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) The 2016 album renaissance technically began in the early morning hours of December 13, 2013, when a former Star Search runner-up from Houston changed the game ( as she’d later put it ) with that digital drop. As we approach the third anniversary of Beyoncé’s…

In a standout year for music, these are just some of the best albums. But they’re the projects that made the format relevant again. In no particular order. Illustration by Erik Carter Frank Ocean, Endless Fresh Produce, LP When Frank Ocean’s Endless arrived by surprise on a Thursday night in August…

In September 2005, Steve Jobs gave his advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, an assignment: Come up with a campaign that clearly demonstrates the Mac's superiority to the PC. There was no deadline. Seven months, dozens of tense meetings and countless discarded ideas later, the agency produced "Get a…

Martin Scorsese Credit Nadav Kander for The New York Times. Set design by Betil Dagdelen. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature In his new film, “Silence,” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy: the nature of…

By Vera Anderson/WireImage. Sorkin Girls, Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the…

American troops in the Pacific during the Second World War. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL POPPER / POPPERFOTO / GETTY I am late weighing in on this election—late in more ways than one. Monday brought my ninety-sixth birthday, and, come November, I will be casting my nineteenth ballot in a Presidential…

T o begin with, auditions taught me to get through airports. In the end, it was the other way around. I’m an actor. Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private…

This is not a profile of Hillary Clinton. It is not a review of her career or an assessment of her campaign. You won’t find any shocking revelations on her emails, on Benghazi, on Whitewater, or even on her health care plan. This is an effort to answer a question I’ve been struggling with since at…

O ne of the fascinating things about Edward Snowden’s sudden appearance a little more than two years ago was the inability of many people to comprehend why a young man might give up on the recipe for happiness — high wages, secure job, Hawaiian home — to become the world’s most sought-after…

Ben Basche Jun 28, 2016 “Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark, I was born in it, molded by it.” — Bane It’s tempting to think of Snapchat as a part of the app revolution, as one of the shining examples of mobile-first design that has defined our smartphone age. This is of…

Archives | 1992 JULY 5, 1992 About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the…

In “Lemonade,” Beyoncé travels between the present—a world filled with police brutality, marital rage, and alienation—and a past inhabited by her Louisiana-based female ancestors. Credit Photograph Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment From April 14th until April 23rd, three events of profound and…

Don’t call it a lens: Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz displaying his company’s mysterious photonic lightfield chip. Peter Yang for Wired There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Inside, amid the low gray cubicles, clustered…

At #JusticeForFlint rally, from Janelle Monae's Instagram. “ I’ve never been very good at giving speeches,” Stevie Wonder said to the crowd. “Before coming here today, I had a lot of things on my mind. A lot of things that you don’t have to see to understand. We are in a very troublesome time in the…

On its Facebook page, Muji describes its aim as creating “products that are really necessary in everyday life in the shapes that are really necessary.” Credit Photograph by Todd Heisler / The New York Times / Redux Last month, Muji, the Japanese life-style brand that sells household goods and…

The Future of Work: Rebooting Work — Programming the Economy for People (Photo: Montypeter/Shutterstock) Digital and robotic technologies offer us both a bounty of productivity as well as welcome relief from myriad repeatable tasks. Unfortunately, as our economy is currently configured, both of…

News & Analysis 16,794 Shares February 5, 2016 04:55 In a radical rethink of the fashion calendar, Burberry will combine its men’s and women’s shows together in two annual runway events, with ‘seasonless’ collections available to buy immediately after the shows. In an exclusive, in-depth…

From top left: Tituss Burgess in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; Roberta Vinci after defeating Serena Williams; Drake; a scene from “Magic Mike XXL.” From top left: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix; Clive Brunskill/Getty Images; J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times; Claudette Barius/Warner Brothers Pictures…

Against Chill In recent years, “chill” has become one of the most desirable qualities in a romantic prospect. But it is a garbage virtue that will destroy the species. By Alana Massey Illustration by Ana Benaroya The Great Chill Massacre of 2014 was not premeditated. When I woke up that morning, I…

F or a long time, Ina Garten was a Hamptons shopkeeper who waited upon the wealthy. She has been, for a shorter time, a celeb­rity chef of some wealth. "Am I a billion­aire? Of course not!" she told me recently over tea on the Upper East Side, and then she laughed. Throughout her thirty-seven-year…

It was a November night in Islamabad, not too different from that evening when the assassins came for me. The two nights are inseparable in my memory. A little after midnight, I had walked out of the television studios after a current affairs live show. Each night my loquacious co-host, a…

The art of Stephen (Espo) Powers often features 1-Shot enamel, block letters, and bold messages. Credit Photograph by Jonathan Dorado / Brooklyn Museum At half past eight on a recent Monday morning, Stephen (Espo) Powers arrived at his painting studio, near Broadway and Franklin. The morning’s…

We must hold accountable our Middle Eastern "allies"—the states and bankers and political elites—who persist in funding mass murder. Most Popular By Getty Martin Bureau Advertisement - Continue Reading Below There was a strange stillness in the news on Saturday morning, a Saturday morning that came…

It was easy for Megan Phelps-Roper to tweet things that made people cringe—she knew that they were evil or deluded by God. Credit Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if users employed the hashtag #red, their…

Essays The Indigenous American Berserk By posted at 6:01 am on May 12, 2011 Double murderer Gary Lee Rock (center) after his capture, before his unsuccessful suicide attempt. 1. There are certain experiences so mystifying, so unsettling, so flat-out weird that we can hope to understand them only…

It's Tuesday afternoon and the Suicide Girls are naked. Well, nearly naked. A few floors up off a touristy strip of Hollywood Boulevard, down the block from Grauman's Egyptian Theater and one of Los Angeles's many Scientology centers, the girls strip off their Storm Trooper corsets and then their…