A Critic at Large Flannery O’Connor on race and religion in the unreconstructed South. January 22, 2001 Photograph by Joe McTyre / Atlanta Journal-Constitution / AP The two niggers, a man and a woman, cutting across the field are looking for a little moonshine when they spot the white boy, Francis…

Last October, Phil Arrington precariously balanced a dream on the cargo bed of his 2002 Ford Ranger pickup. It was a stupid dream, but it did not deserve to die on a dolly behind a beige warehouse. Arrington was hunched over the dolly, gold chain dangling over a tight gray tee. Between his arms,…

When Errol Morris’s documentary American Dharma premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, its subject, Steven K. Bannon, was coming off a volatile year. He’d left his position as chief strategist in Donald Trump’s White House and rejoined Breitbart, the far-right…

The Theatre Simon Stephens’s adaptation of José Saramago’s dystopian novel, about a sudden epidemic of blindness, is up—in person—at the Daryl Roth Theatre. April 12, 2021 The tale of a society-wide epidemic is bleakly consonant with recent history.Illustration by Wenkai Mao If you want to see…

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy’s fifth book, was first published in 1985 to lukewarm critical and commercial reception. It’s gone on, of course, to become recognized as McCarthy’s masterpiece and among the greatest American novels of all-time. All the while, it’s been the source of one troubled,…

Postscript The anxiety and influence of a critic. October 16, 2019 Harold Bloom, who died at the age of eighty-nine, imagined literature as a quarrelling family and the critic as a Freudian analyst.Photograph by Rick Wenner / Redux Sometimes all you remember of a teacher is a voice—“a way of…

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant now than when it was written. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of…

The following is an article from Uncle John's Fully Loaded 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. Some people become famous for the way they lived their lives …and some become famous for the way they, well, shuffled off this mortal coil. Eben Byers was one such unfortunate soul. FALL GUY In November…

Annals of Finance When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen Inside the government’s nearly ten-year battle against one of the most powerful men on Wall Street. January 8, 2017 Government officials spent years investigating Steven Cohen’s financial empire.Illustration by Ben…

Share 192 192 Shares “For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality” – Daido Moriyama. The more you view the work of Daido Moriy

William Klein is a man of two cities: New York and Paris. The film-maker and photographer was born in the former, but has lived in the latter for more than 60 years, where I meet him at home. Now an o

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts. Thirty years ag

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed. A24 Films Paul Schrader learned what it meant to be a storyteller at an early age. Growing up in a Dutch Calvinist community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he heard a lot about hell. When he asked his mother what it was really like, her response epitomized the old…

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all. The first hints these elusive partic

A Reporter at Large Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it. October 2, 2017 After a stranger became their guardian, Rudy and Rennie North were moved to a nursing home and their property was sold.Illustration by Anna…

By Mike Miller Jackie Chan’s estranged daughter and her partner claim they’ve been homeless and sleeping under a bridge “due to homophobic parents.” Etta Ng, 18, and her girlfriend Andi Autumn posted a short video to YouTube last week claiming that they’ve run out of options because their friends…

A college student’s telling of drunken hookups inspired Joanna Coles to write a book about pursuing relationships in the digital world. Credit... Bryan Derballa for The New York Times Opinion What’s L

Haiti / Dominican Republic One island, two worlds T he Caribbean island of Hispaniola is home to two countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Both have a population of around 10 million — but that

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It’s All a Matter of Personal Pathology Conducted by Matt Cardin, July 2006 Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Collected in Born to Fear: Inte

Uncategorized In Zhenan Bao’s lab at Stanford, researchers are ­inventing materials for touch-sensitive prosthetics. By August 5, 2016 The human hand has 17,000 touch sensors that help us pick things up and connect us to the physical world. A prosthetic hand or foot has no feeling at all. Zhenan Bao…

WARNING: The following is gross and terrifying and is not for the faint of heart. The operating room (or the "chop shop," to use the official name) is where doctors rearrange your bones, play with your toes, and replace your flesh with evil machine parts. It's a room of pain and death. And it's…

A team including the scientist who first harnessed the CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome engineering. In a study published today in Cell, Feng Zhang and his colleagues at the Broad…

Stubblefield being taken into custody after the jury’s verdict.Credit...Jonno Rattman for The New York Times Feature She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial.…

NEW VIDEO! Imagining the Tenth Dimension - 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqeqW3... You should follow this project on twitter: http://twitter.com/10thdim To read along with this blog go to http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blo... March 2, 2008 One of the most common questions about this way of…

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