World
Gut Renos of Ionesco and Chekhov
Igor Golyak’s “Delirium,” a madcap, sneakily emotional reinvention of the 1962 Eugène Ionesco play “Frenzy for Two, or More,” opens with an alarming tableau: a dust-coated man is lying face...
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“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
One source, speaking of the high NAZA numbers assigned to many low-level Hamas targets, concludes that “you end up with all of Gaza.” Even without adding the word “genocide,” the...
An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future
In April of 2022, a group of groomsmen gathered for their friend’s wedding on a farm in upstate New York. They’ve known one another since high school. One of them,...
Even Ed Sheeran’s Apology Took Both Sides
How did the Sheeran fans feel? Outside the concert venue, a woman wearing a Taylor Swift shirt (she told me that she’s liked Sheeran ever since his appearance on Swift’s...
What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
If you’ve followed the debate over falling birth rates in the United States, you could be forgiven for thinking that most of the fretting comes from the anti-feminist right. In...
Barry Blitt’s “Pulling the Plug”
For the cover of the September 28, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays the rising fears surrounding the exponential growth of A.I. and the possibility of its being a...
Waiting for Jay-Z
This last concert of the Yankee Stadium run promised to be a career-spanning revue—an enticing pitch, as the later albums have felt more like exercises in brand management. “Magna Carta...
Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
Horgan spoke to me over Zoom from her London home, where she lives with her dog and a couple of “chatty” cats; in keeping with her autobiographical style, she filmed...
The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact
Black man, white man, Black woman, white woman: the cardinal points of our racial and sexual situation. None of the principals in this production can “talk” to one another, so...
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
Which brings me back to the gym. No one does a bench press because they expect to spend their life pushing bars off of their chests. The bench press is...
