Red Dead Redemption 2 was a long-awaited addition to Rockstar’s library of games upon its initial release in 2018. Now, three years and a pandemic later, the base game itself and the online multiplaye

Someone’s probably told you before that something you thought, felt or feared was ‘all in your mind’. I’m here to tell you something else: there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental. I ca

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. Credit...Manshen Lo By Published April 19, 2021Updated Dec. 3, 2021 Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 Listen to This Article At first, I didn’t recognize the symptoms that we all…

John McWhorter Sept. 21, 2021 Credit...Michael Morris By Opinion Writer The other day I had occasion to use the pronoun “they” in the new way, referring to a specific person. Not your grandfather’s singular “they” with its generic meaning — “A student can hand their paper in early if they want to” —…

I—PERMAFROST On September 24, 1918, three days after setting sail from Norway’s northern coast, the Forsete arrived in Longyearbyen, a tiny mining town on one of the Norwegian islands north of the Arc

Kiefer Sutherland, played Ace Merrill This was the only audition where I did the reading and was hired right there in the room. I absolutely adored Spinal Tap, so to get that kind of affirmation from a director like Rob Reiner at that time in my life was really powerful. Rob and I both agreed very…

Published 22 February 2012 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Other By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be go

A fter years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not

(Throughout this piece, I’ve added in quotes from women who were brave enough to come forward and to share their stories with me. These quotes sit apart and are not woven into the narrative, but I think it’s critical that you can read their words and their experiences. All have asked to remain…

Abbie Hoffman arrives for a 1968 hearing at the Capitol Building in Washington, where he was arrested for wearing a shirt made out of the American flag. Credit… Associated Press Why it’s impossible to

The World Health Organization announced it would start classifying “burnout” as an official malady in May 2019, referring to it as an “occupational phenomenon.” Now, everyone is burned out. We’re all burned out! Even amid the crises of the past year and beyond, the churn of capitalism takes no…

news analysis We’re All Socially Awkward Now Deprive people of interactions with peers, and their social skills will atrophy. This is yet another side effect of the pandemic. Credit... Ashley Gilberts

A script is the blueprint for a movie or TV show. Except... When you're just starting out, your breaking-in script isn't actually a blueprint. Your breaking-in script is actually a cover letter, designed to get you meetings and jobs. After you've broken in and decided you're ready to create your own…

A woman stands in front of a piece of art she finds delightful and thinks about buying it. Elsewhere, a couple is choosing between different coloured mugs for their new home. In a zoo, a chimpanzee uses his hands to select images on a screen as part of a task some scientists have prepared for him.…

Army of the Dead premieres in select theaters May 14 and on Netflix May 21. Tig Notaro filming a scene for Army of the Dead on a green screen. Photo: Scott Garfield/Netflix/ During the weeks Tig Notaro spent working on Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder’s new zombie-heist movie, one thought kept running…

In a recent article for Quillette , the “Intellectual Dark Web’s” online safe space, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker offers some reflections on his most recent book, "Enlightenment Now ," one year

Dear Therapist, A few months ago, on a college tour, our 18-year-old son announced that he had found his purpose and future career: He wants to do stand-up comedy. The fact is, he’s got some talent in

Under Review A new book argues that current standards of affirmative consent place too much emphasis on knowing what we want. March 31, 2021 In “Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent,” Katherine Angel suggests that mixed feelings are at the heart of desire and…

Logo text Ray Fisher is ready to talk. Ever since June 2020, when he fired off a tweet accusing Joss Whedon of “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” conduct on the set of Justi

Auguste Deter died on the 8 April 1906, aged 55, after spending the last years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. A photo of her from 1902, after she was institutionalised, shows a woman in a white gown, in a messy bed with her knees drawn up to her chest. She isn’t looking…

Men are doomed. Everybody knows this. We're obviously all doomed, the women too, everybody in general, just a waiting game until one or another of the stupid things our stupid species is up to finally

New Research Most People Don’t Know When to Stop Talking, According to Science A new study finds folks are pretty bad at guessing whether to wrap up a chat or keep talking Alex Fox - Correspondent Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter! A new study finds most conversations don't end when we want…

Five years ago, ARRI announced that it would make its large-format digital camera available for rental, but it has taken a few years to understand the dramatic impact they would have on filmmaking acr

Nonfiction Tom Stoppard in New York in 1974, when “Jumpers” opened on Broadway.Credit...Jack Manning/The New York Times AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. TOM STOPPARD A…

I used to be a techno-optimist. I thought a fresh wave of automation could liberate us from monotonous or arduous work. Online retail warehouses seemed a perfect example. Here was an expanding sector

Pseudophilosophy can result from simple misunderstanding or wilful obscurity. The cure is basic critical thinking skills There are many kinds of pseudosciences: astrology, homeopathy, flat-Earthism, a

Government officials in China believe that boys are getting more effeminate and want to toughen them up. In the latest attempt to tackle what academics and news outlets call a “masculinity crisis,” the Education Ministry has proposed emphasising the “spirit of yang,” or male attributes, by hiring…

When Keira Knightley declared last week that she would no longer shoot sex scenes directed by men, she became the latest actor to express her discomfort with an issue that has come under particular scrutiny since the #MeToo movement of 2017. In the intervening years, studios have begun hiring…

It’s late and you’re exhausted. You barely had time to eat dinner and shower after work. Maybe you watched a few episodes of a show, read a chapter of your book, struggled through your skin-care routine. Now you’re in bed, and you know you should turn on some sleep music and get on with it. But you…

2 020 was a bad year for just about everything—except horror. Horror films were wildly popular on streaming platforms over the past year, and 2020 saw the horror genre take home its largest share of t

This is the story of one strange moment in animation history, two reluctantly warring teams of animators, and three movies, only one of which you can see today. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Col

Segregated play spaces are to be banned in all future London housing developments, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has revealed this week. The policy, part of the London Plan for developers and local authorities across the city, follows outrage across the political spectrum at the case of the…

Director Ari Aster refers to cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski as his closest collaborator, as the pair has been working together since they were just grad students at AFI. Aster is more in charge of composition and camera movement, Pogorzelski the lighting and visual look, yet the two get on the…

Robert Graysmith visiting the home of Bob Vaughn in ‘Zodiac’ is David Fincher’s most purely terrifying scene. Here’s how it came together—and came to stay in the movie. Robert Graysmith visiting the home of Bob Vaughn in ‘Zodiac’ is David Fincher’s most purely terrifying scene. Here’s how it came…

A piece I wrote elsewhere in March is doing the rounds again. ‘The Prodigal Tech Bro’ is about the privileged place in professional interactions and public discourse given to men who used to work in s

On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of Se7en and the 10th anniversary of The Social Network , The Ringer hereby dubs the next five days David Fincher Week . Join us all throughout the week as we celeb

I have a confession to make: I despise to-do lists. For years, I made the mistake of writing a to-do list at the start and end of my working day, telling myself that crossing things off would bring me

Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt expanded the visual aesthetic of David Fincher’s “Mindhunter” in Season 2, as FBI profilers Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) investigate the notorious Atlanta Child Murders, and, as a result, he earned his first Emmy nomination. “Our aim…

The morning after the 2018 Oscars — the one in which her film Lady Bird had been up for five awards, including best director and screenplay — Greta Gerwig loaded up her car and drove north on Highway 1 toward Big Sur. For the next couple of weeks, she hunkered down in a cabin, tapping out a…

Share on Facebook Spring 2018 BREAKTHROUGH PLAYER Greta Gerwig'sSearch forTruth The DGA nominee learnedfrom those she worked with,and drew on real life forauthenticity BY STEVE CHAGOLLAN Director Gret