Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Web site Polymarket is something like a stock exchange for current events. The platform allows users to place bets on future outcomes ranging from who will win the Presidential election…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing. Many of the most original filmmakers, especially those working outside the factorylike order of classic-era studios, have devised highly personalized…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional portrayal of white-collar work. The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in a fictional…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As an obsessed amateur photographer, I spend too much time reading photography forums on the Internet. Not long ago, I came across a particularly plaintive discussion. “Let’s say, hypothetically, I’d like…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The 2024 New Yorker Festival is nearly here. For the twenty-fifth year, leading artists, actors, writers, politicians, and thinkers will gather for a dynamic weekend of conversations, performances, and more in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cover of the October 28, 2024, Money special issue, is Eric Drooker’s fortieth for the magazine. The native New Yorker, who illustrated Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” sees the financial district as…
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 in-box. Cocina Consuelo, a restaurant in Hamilton Heights that…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the climax of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 film “Roma,” a woman named Cleo walks into the sea until the waves reach her neck. Cleo doesn’t know how to swim, but her…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in, either instantly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Remember the Trompe l’Oeil Sweatpants from Balenciaga? The nearly twelve-hundred-dollar heather-gray drawstring pants that seemed ordinary, innocent of fashion, until the shopper, scanning upward, caught the plaid trick happening at the…