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How to Opt Out of A.I. Online
Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid...
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Where the Bubble-Tea Industry Has Gone Into Hyperdrive
As a nineties kid who grew up drinking bubble tea, I long ago wrote the drink off as a cheap indulgence, whose satisfying sugar rush quickly metabolizes into lingering...
Does Anyone Really Know You?
At the end of “Anna Karenina,” Konstantin Levin, the less famous of the novel’s two main protagonists, muses on his isolation amid a loving family. Unlike Anna, he has...
Coldplay’s Self-Help Pop
On a recent afternoon in Malibu, Chris Martin, the front man of Coldplay, was enjoying a brief pause between tour dates. “We have breaks, but only in the way...
An Idyllic Music Series in the Hebrides
On August 7, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn took a steamer from the Scottish mainland to the grandly rugged island of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. Later that day, the composer...
The Unrivalled Omnipresence of Queen Elizabeth II
For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his...
On the “Industry” Season Finale, Father Knows Best
The third season of the HBO financial drama “Industry” opens on a luxury yacht, off the coast of one of those places where the very wealthy like to spend...
Malika Favre’s “The Candidate”
For the cover of the October 7, 2024, issue, in which the editors endorse Kamala Harris for President, the artist Malika Favre portrays the Democratic candidate. “As soon as...
The Exhilarating Brilliance of Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, at the age of eighty-nine, was one of a generation of female British actors who carved out a long career on the...
Allrecipes, America’s Most Unruly Cooking Web Site
A few months ago, and in possession of a bag of apples, I found myself craving an apple pie, of the archetypal cooling-on-the-window-ledge variety. I pictured a double-crust flaky...
