When I Got Sick, My Novel Got Better
A few years ago, I was out jogging on Hampstead Heath near my home in north London when I suddenly...
Why I Stopped Reading and Embraced Audiobooks
It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic (obviously). The...
What Is Lossless Audio, and Do You Really Need It?
There’s a difference, of course, between “putting some music on” and “listening to music.” The first is just a nice...
Is Gen Z the key to a manufacturing revival? Fall River thinks so.
In a cavernous 19th-century textile mill building in Fall River, Massachusetts, expert artisans stitch together thick leather motorcycle jackets worn...
With the Powers of AI, Annoying Dorks Can Now Pretend They’re Friends With Cool Famous People
We’re sure AI will be used to cure cancer or solve climate change any day now. In the meantime, its...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
Move over Karen and snowflake. There’s a new go-to political put-down: Theater kid. Last month, the comedian Tim Dillon referred...
Market-savvy Treasury chief Scott Bessent emerges as unlikely MAGA warrior
Treasury secretaries for decades have been careful to avoid partisan public remarks, fearing that overt political wrangling could undermine their...
The Rockettes have worn some wild, memorable costumes over 100 years
If you watched this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, perhaps you caught the performance by the famous Radio City Rockettes,...
Defiant sister of slain Bondi Beach rabbi — who battles Jew hate in her own Brooklyn nabe — says ‘We’re not afraid’
The Brooklyn sister of the beloved rabbi slain in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre is doubling down on her Jewish...
MoMA honors one of this country’s greatest artists: Ruth Asawa
In 1946, frustrated by the racism she experienced as she sought to become a teacher, artist Ruth Asawa enrolled at...
