When the World Is Full of Noise
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Why Are We So Bad at Getting Better?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four and a half years ago, in the heat of an N.B.A. playoff game against the Houston Rockets, Kevin Durant, the superstar forward of the Golden State Warriors, dodged a defender,…
How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In February of last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the horror of war filtered out into the world through user-generated videos on TikTok. Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and civilians…
Ballet Abounds at the Dance Reflections Festival
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’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 in-box. A few…
Martin Scorsese on Making “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Martin Scorsese has the best curveball in the business. His 2013 film, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” based on the true story of a large-scale financial fraudster, is also his wildest…
Nanci Griffith’s Lone Star State of Mind
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Texas-born singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith’s voice is an “acquired taste,” as one critic put it after Griffith’s death two years ago, at the age of sixty-eight. To me, Griffith’s idiosyncratic sound—coquettishly…
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” Is Intimate, Colossal, and Slightly Disappointing
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like most people, I know some of Taylor Swift’s songs by the mere fact of being alive, but it’s one thing to hear music and another to listen to it. The…
Bearing Witness with My Daughter at the Church of Taylor Swift
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I was struggling to sort fact, fiction, and rumor when it came to the Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce relationship. But then, on Friday night, I drove a group of fourth-grade girls to…
Daniel Clowes’s “Quiet Luxury”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the Money Issue, the cartoonist Daniel Clowes evokes the lavish, concentrated wealth that governs our world. The true billionaires, rich beyond comprehension, hardly need to flaunt their…
The Problem of the Too-Truthful Woman
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Anatomy of a Fall,” the remarkable new film by the French director Justine Triet, begins with an interview. A woman arrives at a chalet in the French Alps to speak with…
