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The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude

The end of the pandemic in New York has been declared so many times—I have heralded many a false spring myself—and each time with a stumbling, unhappy one-step-forward, one-step-back rhythm, that to declare it over for good feels squishy and

Has the U.S. Become a Soccer Nation?

Many Americans felt the pain of World Cup soccer on Saturday, as the U.S. lost decisively to the Netherlands. There’s no shame in losing to the Dutch, who are considered the best nation never to have won the world’s largest…

The Year in Apps I Gave Up On

If the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were an orgy of digital technology—heralding the renaissance of video meetings, the explosion of on-demand exercise classes, and the birth of new streaming platforms—2022 was a yearlong comedown as we suffered the…