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Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The C.D.C. was hit even harder. It has shed roughly a quarter of its workforce, including scores of people from the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, which trains and deploys...
The Men Who Made Theory French
Guattari spent time in hospitals as a student and an analyst. Barthes had tuberculosis and “spent most of World War II in sanatoriums,” where, Eakin writes, “he was subjected...
Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman Enter the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids
For the rest of the decade—the years represented by these Polaroids—she was booked and busy. “It was such a period of growth for me as a photographer,” Shur told...
Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love
This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The...
How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope
“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead,...
A New Crop of Unapologetic Sandwiches
I’ve been worried, a little, that Unapologetic Foods was going soft. Over the past decade or so, the restaurant group more or less detonated the New York dining scene...
How I Lost Faith in Google
This voice-of-Google thing—a code I’d cracked for generating corpspeak with personality—slowly became a hot commodity. The company relied heavily on the rhetoric of “culture” to keep tens of thousands...
Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey”
There are times when you can sense Nolan’s frustration—not with Homer so much as his own inability to reshape the material into something more than mere spectacle. When Odysseus...
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The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap
Labor-saving technology tends to create domestic systems that are far more efficient over all, but not necessarily easier for the people doing the labor. As the historian Ruth Schwartz...
