World
The World Keeps Getting Richer. Some People Are Worried
In April, 1968, a consequential meeting took place in the Villa Farnesina, a stately Roman home built for Pope Julius II’s treasurer and adorned with frescoes by Raphael. The...
Sergio García Sánchez’s “Scoot”
When spring melts away and the heat rises, many wise New Yorkers rush to find an open space. For the cover of the June 3, 2024, issue, Sergio García...
The Decades-Long Romance of Las Vegas and Hawaii
Late one recent evening at the California Hotel and Casino, in downtown Las Vegas, a few miles north of the Strip, I tried my luck at a slot machine...
The Detroit Pistons Were My Father’s Second Family
One night, when I was a sophomore in college, my father came to see me play basketball in Philadelphia. It was 1984. I was on the team at St....
The Fashionista Modernism of Yuja Wang
It has never been just about the music. The notion that performers should be faceless butlers of genius, impersonally conveying sublime messages in sound, has no basis in tradition....
An Egyptian Photographer’s Portraits of a Changing Sinai
In 2014, Eldalil settled in St. Catherine, where she would live for the next seven years. With the help of tribe elders, she established a community center that would...
All the Films in Competition at Cannes, Ranked from Best to Worst
The seventy-seventh annual Cannes Film Festival came to a startling and joyous conclusion on Saturday night, when the competition jury, chaired by Greta Gerwig, awarded the Palme d’Or, the...
The Casual Confidence of Lola’s
Lola’s is named in honor of Cupps’s Filipina grandmother—lola is the Tagalog term for “grandma”—though on my visits the menu bore few overt Filipino touches, beyond a bright wisp...
Aasif Mandvi Contains Multitudes
The actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi’s three-decade career—which began with a bit part on “Miami Vice”—encompasses three distinct eras of Hollywood. There was the pre-9/11 era, when precious few...
The Texas School District That Provided the Blueprint for an Attack on Public Education
In October, 2018, on the night of a high-school homecoming dance in Southlake, Texas, a group of white students gathered at a friend’s house for an after-party. At some...
