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. Forget your sabred champagne bottles, your sizzling steaks,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few years ago, activists walked into a factory farm in Utah and walked out with two piglets. State prosecutors argued that this was a crime. That they were correct was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Simo, a typical teen-ager, lives in the shadow of Emad, his older brother, and their domineering dad, in the suburbs of Montreal, where the family emigrated from Egypt. One night, Simo…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As yet, we cannot tell whether 2023 will be remembered for the movies that we saw or for the movies that were hobbled and hog-tied by industrial action. The strikes called…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With movies that are based on books, there’s no inherent merit in either fidelity or infidelity. What matters is the sense of freedom, of using a book to one’s own purposes.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A century ago, August Krogh, a Danish physiologist who had just won the Nobel Prize, embarked on a U.S. lecture tour. Krogh studied the intricate network of blood vessels that nourish…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Daniel Kish takes his glass eyes out of their sockets, the two boys sitting near him have some questions. Does it feel weird without them? Can he blink? Daniel answers…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story News exhaustion is a miasma that has afflicted almost all of us for some time now. We’re drained by the physical and mental exertion that comes with following current events. The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On October 13th, the filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass posted a photo of himself on Instagram—what looked like a red-carpet closeup, with a bow tie on his neck and a forced…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Many Americans, it is safe to assume, would prefer if less were said about Hunter Biden. The troubled son of the President has been a ubiquitous subject of conversation since 2019,…
