Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s so much going on in “In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney” (at the Drawing Center through September 14th) that you may leave the show wishing there’d…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), the thirtysomething protagonist of the mesmerizing Japanese thriller “Cloud,” is never more content than when he’s in front of his computer. Some will surely relate, but Yoshii—lean,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the course of Justin Bieber’s nearly twenty-year career, his music has come to be somewhat immaterial to his celebrity. For many, he is an almost Kardashian-like figure, whose songs are…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most directors go to their locations or sets like people heading to an office; that’s where they make their films. A rare few make the world their work. For them, shooting…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he could barely stand. Fajgenbaum, a former college quarterback, could still…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tolerance was over. Drag shows, activist-driven science, the spurious multiplication of identities—all of these were to be purged, along with the backstabbing liberals, likely collaborating with foreigners, who’d emasculated the nation…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of a heat wave. “The part of a…
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…
