Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, was teaching a class on medical ecology in which he asked his students, “What will…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like so many millennials, I entered the online world through AOL Instant Messenger. I created an account one unremarkable day in the late nineteen-nineties, sitting in the basement of my childhood…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, I became a kind of undertaker. I was a fact checker at this magazine until recently and, in the final months of my tenure, it felt as if…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The finale of “The Curse,” the oddest and most original show on television right now, opens with Asher and Whitney Siegel, the grin-and-bear-it married couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Toward the end of “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno’s memoir of the early pandemic, she describes corresponding with a friend, the author and professor Sofia Samatar, about the difference between hoarding…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 4th, a TikTok user with the handle @aaliyarae uploaded a video of three friends on an erotic pilgrimage to the corner of Crosby and Houston. Earlier that day, Calvin…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlo Washington peers out the car window as he drives through the capital of Arkansas. He wears a royal-blue polo; his Afro is close-cropped. With soft, alert eyes, he surveys the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On April 30, 1945, the photojournalist Lee Miller took a bath in Hitler’s tub. A correspondent for British Vogue, Miller had posted up in the Führer’s abandoned apartment in Munich along…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the British director Andrew Haigh’s earlier films—“Weekend” (2011), “45 Years” (2015), and “Lean on Pete” (2017)—the images did much less of the work than the script and the actors. There…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Bill Rauch became obsessed with the survival of theatre as an undergraduate at Harvard, in the early nineteen-eighties. He’d already decided that he wanted to be a stage director, and was…
