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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...
How Mary Kay Built an Empire Out of Other Women’s Dreams
Mary Kay had tried her hand at direct, door-to-door sales before. She was once enchanted with a Depression-era racket called the “Child Psychology Bookshelf”: badly printed, seldom-used encyclopedias filled...
Naomi Fry’s Favorite Book
Being asked to name my favorite book of all time feels like way too much pressure (apologies to the asker, this newsletter’s editor). The older I get, the harder...
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....
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....
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...
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,...
Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare
As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. Source link
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...
