Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Because the Trump Administration funded the project from the D.O.D.’s budget and classified it as a matter of national security, the wall’s construction was exempt from the stipulations of the Clean…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 23rd, Venezuelan firefighters broke into the home of Pedro Salinas, a renowned engineering professor in the northwestern city of Mérida. Emaciated and dishevelled, the eighty-three-year-old retiree was found lying…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Long before David Carr, the late Times media critic, published his 2008 memoir, “The Night of the Gun,” I asked him why he never wrote a book about newspapers and the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every great movie is an exception, and exceptional new movies continue to appear reliably, illuminating unexpected pathways to the future of the art. But fewer good new movies show up now,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long after I became my professor’s research assistant, I told him that I sometimes threw up what I ate. A junior at Cornell, I had just turned twenty. X, as…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the sublime is in fashion, quiet beauty struggles to be heard. Dorothy Ashby, America’s first great jazz harpist, came of age amid the clamor of giants—men like Charles Mingus, Cecil…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The melting watches turned Salvador Dalí into a brand, and his curlicued mustache made him a living logo for it. The substitution of iconography and celebrity for creative range and connoisseurs’…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar declined to adapt Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” the job went to Ang Lee instead. Almodóvar later watched Lee’s version, and was so struck by…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 2020, the photographer Siân Davey was, like much of the rest of humanity, locked down at home with her family. Home in Davey’s case is in Devon,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2003, Ken Jennings was a twenty-nine-year-old software engineer, living in a suburb of Salt Lake City with his wife and young son, when his old college roommate suggested that they…