In Praise of Quarantine Clapping
Every night at 7, my Brooklyn neighborhood comes to life with the calculated whimsy of a cuckoo clock. It starts with a single neighbor clapping. Soon dozens more join in,...
Read moreEvery night at 7, my Brooklyn neighborhood comes to life with the calculated whimsy of a cuckoo clock. It starts with a single neighbor clapping. Soon dozens more join in,...
Read moreAs chorus members of “Jagged Little Pill” on Broadway, Heather Lang and Ebony Williams didn’t qualify for private dressing rooms. That news was disconcerting, at least to me. Though the...
Read moreWhen the physician and writer Lewis Thomas died, in 1993, his New York Times obituary called him “the poet-philosopher of medicine.” And of science in general, it might have added....
Read moreThis interview contains spoilers for the “Modern Family” series finale. After 11 seasons, 250 episodes and five best comedy series Emmys, ABC’s “Modern Family” wrapped on Wednesday with an hourlong...
Read moreUniversal Games and Digital Platforms and Zynga are collaborating to bring more Fast & Furious cars to CSR Racing 2 mobile game. That means that cars Inspired by Universal Pictures’...
Read moreThe Meaning of It All To the Editor: In the March 8 review of Brian Greene’s “Until the End of Time,” the astrophysicist is quoted lamenting that “all that lives...
Read more“I would encourage anyone interested in understanding the Great Depression or mid-19th century Britain to turn to Steinbeck or Dickens,” says Joseph E. Stiglitz, whose book “People, Power, and Profits”...
Read moreTRY THIS AT HOME Jen Gotch has a message for people who feel alone in this season of social isolation and coronavirus dread: “I’ve been training for this for years...
Read moreIn 1999, David Papineau wrote for the Book Review about “Flu,” Gina Kolata’s book about the 1918 influenza pandemic and the hunt for the virus that caused it. Could it...
Read moreMarina Abramovic has pulled off some crazy feats. In a decades-spanning career, the 73-year-old Serbian performance artist has walked more than 1,000 miles along the Great Wall of China. She...
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