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Mark Morris’s Summer Season
Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things,” in 2022, one of the series regulars, Joe Keery, released “Decide,” his second album as...
Should You Recline Your Airplane Seat?
Are you a recliner or a refrainer? Like many culture-war issues, this divide has material causes. Since the nineteen-seventies, legroom in the typical economy seat has decreased by anywhere...
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph
The undercurrent of unsatisfied lust that runs through “Élisabeth” bursts to the fore when Michel, giving a high-school student named Jacqueline a lift, introduces himself under a false name...
“Broken,” by Rabih Alameddine
Usually, when I informed a guy that I had a type, that I couldn’t help whom I was or wasn’t attracted to, he moved on. Not you. Source...
Rachel Aviv on Writing About Moms
The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter relationship, perhaps more than any other, seems to defy...
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What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People
The EAR can’t prove any of these theories—it can only listen. Mehl co-created it, in the nineties, to gauge who people talked to, how often they talked to them,...
The Simple Genius of Jon Klassen
Everything is watching you. The snakes, of course, along with the birds, bears, turtles, fish, rabbits, and horses. Also: the tables, the chairs, the bridges, the tents, the rocks,...
David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy
There are two ways to describe what “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is about. One is, What if someone actually tried to use their celebrity sex pass?...
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Marriage Plot
Celebrities get engaged all the time; sometimes they even go through with the wedding. Dua Lipa and Callum Turner recently got married at a town hall in London and...
Who’s Your Favorite American?
Nessmuk is my all-time favorite American, at least for the moment. You can learn more about him at the Adirondack Experience, a museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York....
