Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story More than telling a story, shaping performances, or conveying emotions, the art of directing is creating a unified spectrum of experience. A good director is like a powerful magnetic field whose…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As the COVID-19 pandemic eases, a mental-health crisis still has us in its grip. My fellow-psychiatrists and I continue to be flooded with referrals, desperate calls, emergencies, and relapses—likely the consequences…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In December, 2020, in the depths of pandemic winter, the actress Kimiko Glenn got a foreign-royalty statement in the mail from the screen actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA. Glenn is best known for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For most of the film, the wolf, named Naya, is camera-shy, somehow evading the hundreds of cameras that have been set up to view her. In the middle of a dusty…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the center of “The Life of the Mind” (2021), Christine Smallwood’s comic novel about the vagaries of contemporary academia, are two scenes designed to mirror each other. In the first,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You are getting married, and of course I have feelings about that. I think I might go watch some TV. I am just beginning to know your man. He’s from another…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Clayton Patterson photographed in his home, on July 6, 2023.Photograph by Noelle Flores Théard / The New Yorker The artist and folk historian Clayton Patterson has lived in the same storefront…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Thursday morning, with a looming sense of dread, I signed up for Threads, a Twitter clone from Meta, the proprietor of Facebook and Instagram. The new social network launched Wednesday…
