“Old Movies,” by Robert Pinsky
“Did it ever matter? Did Maurice Chevalier / Collaborate with Nazis, or not?”
“Did it ever matter? Did Maurice Chevalier / Collaborate with Nazis, or not?”
“Unbeknownst, I picked a pretty / hemlock bouquet.”
Anxiety causes gray hair in mice. A few methods for putting them on edge: ask if they identify as rodent or vermin; ask if they’re worried about the election.
Readers respond to Kathryn Schulz’s review of an autobiography by the geologist Marcia Bjornerud and Amanda Petrusich’s piece about MJ Lenderman’s new album.
Some scholars say that it’s to blame for our political dysfunction—and that we need to start over.
In his previous novels about gay life, Hollinghurst has eroticized racial difference; in “Our Evenings,” he politicizes it.
The artist’s posthumous album is less an expression of her journey than a guide for the rest of us—a last gift.
“Life and Death of the American Worker,” by Alice Driver; “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out,” by Katherine Bucknell; “Mina’s Matchbox,” by Yoko Ogawa; and “The Sons of El Rey,” by Alex Espinoza.
Ken Caillat, who was an engineer on the Fleetwood Mac album “Rumours,” went to see David Adjmi’s hit play and was surprised by the similarities with his own memoir.
The Colombian composer and musician Eblis Álvarez melds traditional genres with his own idiosyncratic style to create an almost unclassifiable sound.
A new book by two New York Times investigative reporters comprehensively debunks the notion that Trump is a good businessman.
In the nineteen-sixties, the English neurologist treated patients who had encephalitis lethargica and wrote constant updates about their progress, and his own.
Don Luigi Ciotti leads an anti-Mafia organization, and for decades he has run a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld.
At the Copenhagen restaurant, diners are served raw jellyfish—and freeze-dried lamb brain served in a fake cranium—while videos about climate change swirl on the ceiling. Is it “gastronomic opera,” or sensory overload?
Some progressives in Michigan say that they won’t support Kamala Harris unless she changes her policy on Israel. Will their tactics persuade her, or risk throwing the election to Trump?
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image.
In 1983, Ed Pousson picked up Patrick Johnstone’s Operation World prayer guide and read an entry on Singapore. In it, the Southeast Asian country was described as the ‘Antioch of Asia.’ The American missionary and his Malaysian wife, Lai Kheng, had previously lived and served in Malaysia and were planning to make their home there Read more...
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C. S. Lewis wrote at the end of his book The Four Loves that he didn’t feel like he could fully express the nature of love on the page. “I dare not proceed,” he concluded. Now one of the largest ballet companies in the United States is trying to fill in where words fall short, Read more...
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We all lead diverse sensory lives—in the form of memories, reflections, emotions, and events that become embedded into our embodied lives. It is through our five senses that we encounter the world, and these experiences get encoded into the fabric of our beings to be later recalled, from compassion and peace to trauma and violence. Read more...
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Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, September 23rd
A two-month orbit around Earth puts this space rock in the class of so-called "mini moons."
English speakers do not need to provide supporting documentation to receive health care in English, according to the directive.
Electra Battery Materials, which has a plant in the northern Ontario city of Temiskaming Shores, has signed an agreement with Indigenous-owned Three Fires Group to recycle electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
