Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel unduly burdened by the demands of everyday cognition. Apparently, it’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has grown tenfold. This “great acceleration,” to use the title of the (exquisitely…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story John Updike’s professional relationship with The New Yorker began in 1954, when he was twenty-two and the magazine published his poem “Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums,” but his personal fascination began…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past August, in a windowless room of the British Library, in London, Tasha Marks was enacting her own form of time travel. Marks is a scent designer who works with…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had left the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Memory is a powerful attractant, even if the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fifty years ago, a glitchy yet terrifying animatronic shark persuaded movie audiences never to go in the water again. Luckily—for the photographer Tod Papageorge, at least—it didn’t keep people off the…
