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The Perils of Killing the Already Dead
January 7, 2026
He goes on to say that to behead a corpse is to follow the path of Satan, and that it is God, not a lip-smacking corpse, who holds power...
All Hail the Jamaican Patty
January 4, 2026
The leader of the fancy-patty movement, for me, though, is Bar Kabawa, the swanky, sexy East Village Daiquiri joint that’s attached to Kabawa, the chef Paul Carmichael’s marvellous Caribbean...
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
December 28, 2025
After the incident, she needed reconstructive surgery, and had brain inflammation so severe that when she tried to look up, all she saw was black. Even once she was...
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
December 27, 2025
One year ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and...
“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
December 22, 2025
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic rage amid brazen...
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That”
December 22, 2025
For the cover of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti depicted a time-honored way to shake off the old and welcome the...
The Psychology of Fashion
December 22, 2025
Virginia Woolf had portrayed a similar tension between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself in the mirror:That was her self—pointed; dartlike; definite. That...
The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
December 21, 2025
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its own as a cultural...
Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board
December 20, 2025
Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard Avedon, one of Mitchell’s idols. Conceptually, Mitchell’s work has its roots in his...
Can You Reclaim Your Mind?
December 19, 2025
Modernists like Woolf developed an attitude, which T. S. Eliot called “impersonality,” meant to reclaim their mental lives from the habits they unknowingly followed. The philosopher Raymond Geuss has...