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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You open your favorite online short video platform and see: A woman dances in pointe shoes in front of Tower Bridge in London, with superimposed text: “Point of View: Dance is…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t really my patient; as a first-year medical student, “my patient” hadn’t yet entered my vocabulary. In any case, he was long gone by…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hengam Island is a tropical island off the coast of Iran, in the southern Persian Gulf. It is only fourteen square miles in area and contains three villages with several hundred…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, Everything Now: The New York Avant-Garde of the 1960s—Primal Events, Underground Cinema, Radical Pop, is as joyful as its subtitle. It’s a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. John Cazale, with his rugged…

The Norwegian grandmaster lost control on the main stage. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… It was a noise that the entire chess world heard. With the clock ticking and defeat imminent, perhaps the greatest chess player of all…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was interesting to see Ballerina, which hits theaters this week, so soon after the new Mission: Impossible film. The latter film’s fearless stunts, which peak in several extended action sequences…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Two weeks ago, ahead of the release of her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus, the 32-year-old star who is one of the most successful pop artists of all time,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four tech billionaires walk into a mansion. It could be the beginning of a joke, but it also serves as the basis for almost the entire premise of “Mountainhead,” a bright…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This week on Open Questions, Cal Newport replaces Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story called “Strange Playmate.” It features…