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Meg Stalter Commits to the Bit
Let’s start with last night—I saw you in “Oh, Mary!” How did that show feel? Can you tell the different rhythms between performances, when it’s going well and when...
What Natalie Harp Carries
On September 1, 1987, a military train loaded with munitions coursed out of Diablo Valley, in the East Bay of Northern California. President Ronald Reagan would, through his extralegal...
Crossing Into England with a False Story
Crossing into England, at twenty, with a false story. Source link
Does Your Baby Need a Book on Coding?
The puzzling rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers. Source link
Should You Believe in Fate?
At first, these inconveniences, along with various forms of physical discomfort, dominated my consciousness. But, with time, I came to notice other, subtler changes. I was used to a...
Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America?
If they did come, the Citizen Historians were determined to get there first. Curtis unfolded a map of the museum with eight galleries circled in hot pink. “We powwowed...
“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores
In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone. Source link
Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows”
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.During her tenure as The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum...
The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work
In an interview with the Times, earlier this year, Clint Bentley, the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter of the film “Train Dreams,” was asked to name his “favorite book that...
Three Books that Will Transport You
I’m going through a phase lately where almost everything reminds me of “Adam’s Curse,” by William Butler Yeats. The poem is about how our most worthwhile pursuits—things like art,...