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What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s books have been everywhere since the nineties: your neighbor’s bookshelf, your college lounge, your grandmother’s coffee table, your schoolteacher’s desk, every lake house in the Lower Forty-eight. Kingsolver...
Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger”
A circus of bombast ensues, some of it courtesy of the score, by the British composer Cosmo Sheldrake. Digger is lambasted by his half sister, Emma (Sandra Hüller), a superficially...
Startup Funding News: OpenAI Backs a $36M Biosecurity Bet
In the latest startup funding news, OpenAI has quietly backed Red Queen Bio, an AI-native biosecurity startup that has now raised $36 million to design antibody drugs meant to protect...
Digital Avatar Trend Tests Founders’ Personal Brand Strategy
TechCrunch reporter Dominic-Madori Davis spent a couple of days in Synthesia’s studio and walked out with an interactive digital avatar of herself that can answer questions out loud, in her...
AI Coworkers Get a New Home as Ando Raises $20M
Sara Du just raised $20 million for Ando, a team messaging app built so AI agents can join the conversation as real teammates instead of bolted-on bots. The pre-seed and...
Is What We’re Watching True or False?
One afternoon, already feeling wary of commercials—whose unreal relation to everyday life far predates the rise of A.I.—I was served an ad for legal services, promising cash for people involved...
IPO Timing Keeps Slipping as Solari Capital Emerges
A new investment firm stepped out of stealth mode on September 25 with $350 million already deployed, and its founder is making a blunt argument: companies are staying private for...
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Flower District”
For the October 5, 2026, issue, the artist and architect Victoria Tentler-Krylov celebrates the flower district, one of New York’s most magical, verdant nooks. Once sprawling from Twenty-third to Thirty-fourth...
How America Became Antifascist
Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around. Source link
Taryn Simon’s Father Figures
Although it’s interesting to learn about the federal government’s photographic strategies (the T.W.A. fuselage, for example, was scanned before being destroyed), Simon’s documentation of the institutional uses of photography rarely...
