An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre

An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre

On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple died at Jonestown, the agricultural settlement they had founded in a remote part of northern Guyana. Many, in answering the call to “revolutionary suicide,” drank Fla-Vor-Aid laced with cyanide; others who resisted were forcibly dosed. But nearly all of the congregants had…

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A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World

A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World

Celan’s influence is tricky to absorb for any poet who did not suffer in a labor camp or witness his parents taken away to be murdered by the S.S. It is impossible to isolate Celan’s aesthetic innovations from his trauma and its historical meanings; Wright preëmpts that bind by presenting his own suffering as sort…

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EXCLUSIVE: BPCM Names Christian Langbein Executive Vice President of Growth and Strategy

EXCLUSIVE: BPCM Names Christian Langbein Executive Vice President of Growth and Strategy

BPCM has appointed Christian Langbein executive vice president of growth and strategy, creating an executive-level role as the communications agency continues to expand beyond traditional public relations into broader brand strategy, creative development and business consulting. “I’ve watched how the agency has really diversified its expertise and grown its value proposition,” Langbein said. “I am…

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The Stellar New Restaurant That’s Put a Museum on the Map

The Stellar New Restaurant That’s Put a Museum on the Map

Amant, the sprawling four-building, twenty-one-thousand-square-foot campus where Zoli lives, is the project of Lonti Ebers, a serious art collector and a MOMA trustee married to the Canadian billionaire Bruce Flatt. The space opened, in 2021, to real notice in the art world and comparatively little beyond it—but Zoli, which opened in the spring, has put…

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The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips

The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer Iraq invaded Kuwait, and I didn’t know what I was doing in Seattle. We had just moved to the United States, because of my father’s job, and I was lonesome and friendless, in a weird purgatory state: while my dad spent long days at work, I was…

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Perfect Corp. Set to Go Private

Perfect Corp. Set to Go Private

Perfect Corp., an artificial intelligence and augmented reality company known for its beauty and fashion technology, said that it has agreed to go private. The company signed a merger deal with ProjectNY, a firm controlled by Perfect Corp.’s own founder, chief executive officer and chairwoman, Alice H. Chang. Under the agreement, shareholders will receive $2…

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Mark Morris’s Summer Season

Mark Morris’s Summer Season

Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things,” in 2022, one of the series regulars, Joe Keery, released “Decide,” his second album as Djo. His career as a musician largely existed in the huge shadow of the show, and for a while it seemed as if it would stay…

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Shoppers Have Bad Reviews About Returns

Shoppers Have Bad Reviews About Returns

Stricter return policies are eroding consumer trust in the U.S., according to a new analysis of millions of Trustpilot reviews, as retailers pull back on the generous return policies. Reviews that mention “returns” had the largest drop in star reviews compared to any other topic, according to a new report from the review platform, which…

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