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A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State
Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung blocks of row houses...
John Early Is Ready to Go There
I saw who you were sitting with.She was talking with Wallace Shawn, who was sitting behind me, and an usher told her, “Your seat is over there.” I had...
“Rafa”: the Destruction of a Man, and the Making of a Legend
For tennis champion Rafael Nadal, pain has always felt like weakness leaving the body, and a new Netflix docuseries shows the boons of this ideology, as well as its...
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It
In search of a better understanding of our current moment, I recently went looking for A.I. adopters outside the tech industry. I asked the C.E.O. of a journalism nonprofit...
The Rise of the Meta-Gay Show
At times, this approach can wear thin, the air quotes so enormous that they dwarf what’s inside them. But, when the method clicks, it captures something profound: the deep...
A Stunning New LACMA Descends Upon a City in Crisis
It is for this Los Angeles that the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has designed a building that is both futuristic and primordial. A great gray swish spanning Wilshire Boulevard,...
Trump Has Turned Washington, D.C., into His Own Personal Stage Set
For nearly eight years, while living in Washington, D.C., I often played out a thought experiment in my mind: Which Presidential candidate would Americans vote for if they knew,...
Lessons in Fanhood from the Knicks
When I try to describe my love of sports, especially basketball, to people who don’t share it, I tend to emphasize its similarities to the higher arts. As with...
Data Centers Bring the Buzz
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Resists Stagnation
The lyrical direction of this record intrigued me. You are using language and imagery that could be directed toward another person, but it feels, to my ear, like it’s...
All That Glimmers at Ambassadors Clubhouse
The menu is vast, and somewhat conceptual—dishes are divided, at times, by type (a section for papads and chaat), but then also by size (“bitings,” or finger foods), or...
The Knicks: The Only Game in Town
For Knicks fans, the half century since those two titles has been a prolonged excruciation with intermittent periods of thwarted hope. Ask Spike Lee, who, as a kid, attended...