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Little Island Goes Big
Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002.When Little Island, the extravagantly landscaped public park that floats above the Hudson River on tulip-shaped columns, first opened, in...
Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics
When I was in London recently, walking down near Cheapside, north of the Thames, I went into the small museum built above the Mithraeum, an ancient site hidden twenty...
The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis
Nicholas Kristof started his journalism career as a teen-age reporter for the News-Register, an Oregon county newspaper where he was paid twenty-five cents a column inch. He spent his...
A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do
The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet....
A Road Warrior’s Driving Lessons in the Thrilling, Sprawling “Furiosa”
The last time we saw Imperator Furiosa, in the dystopian chase thriller “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), she had just returned from the heat of battle, her face streaked...
Faux ScarJo and the Descent of the A.I. Vultures
On May 13th, during a live event, the artificial-intelligence company OpenAI unveiled the next generation of its technology, GPT-4o, the successor to GPT-3. When OpenAI first released its product...
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson in “The F-Word”
In Alex Cannon’s comedic short, starring Chris Gethard, a dad struggles to give an age-appropriate explanation of the expletive. Source link
Brancusi Makes the Modern World Look Stale
I am writing about Constantin Brancusi on a machine with rounded corners. Chances are good that you own such a machine, too. Mine is mostly aluminum, but the surface...
When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into Operatives
Benjamen Walker, the creator and host of “Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything,” is a pod-maker of the mad-scientist variety: he cooks up projects using his own zeal, research, and...
