Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We live in a world of virtual reality, but not the kind suggested by Apple’s Vision Pro goggles, the Meta Quest, or any of the other bulky V.R. headsets now for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I admit that I don’t usually like photography of dancers. It makes them look like buildings—solid, structured, and immovable. It stops time, the essence of dance, and freezes the dancer in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For an entertainer, a casino gig is a double-edged sword. It can be a lucrative booking, a sign that you’ve entered a rarefied tier of bankability. But casino crowds can be…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early two-thousands, Martin Gurri, a media analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, began considering the political implications of the Internet. Gurri worked in the Open Source Center, a part…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It begins with not one, not two, but three prologues, each spiked with a different kind of horror. First, a scrolling text suggesting that this all really happened to the “five…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Comedy—the theme of this year’s Archive Issue—is forever present in the work of the late cover artist Charles Addams
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “It’s Okay.” In late December, 2022, when demonstrators gathered outside a public library, in Queens, to protest a Drag Story Hour, the filmmaker and investigative journalist David France was present…
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. After a sweltering summer dominated by, thank goodness,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Midday on a Thursday this summer in New York, I walked up Broadway in SoHo, toward Sephora, hoping that I wouldn’t see something. I had been reading—in the Times, the Washington…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I can’t be the only one who is delighted and amused but also, on a deep level, totally baffled—like a museumgoer at an early exhibition of Surrealist art—by the constant televisual…
