Culture

Fellini’s Satyricon comes to the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine. Credit: sirtravelalot There is a very easy way to eliminate death on the roads: prohibit all traffic. Unfortunately, such a policy would have effects other than the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The city is full of unexpected sights, but few are more endearing than a row of wobbly preschoolers, holding onto a rope while they walk with their teachers. For the cover…

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. Diners are enveloped in velvet at the West…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the photographer Juanita Escobar was nineteen years old, she left her native city of Cali, Colombia, to document a nature reserve in the country’s Eastern Plains, known as Los Llanos…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a boy, I got into the habit of watching my father eat. Our dinner table was round, and, on the nights when it was all of us, four kids and…

Is a new front in the culture war opening up? Credit: Elena Pavlovich Last Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s decision regarding embryos destroyed at a fertility clinic. Their ruling applied the Wrongful Death of a Minor…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Italian finds me on the second day. Most of the men who like my profile don’t stand out in any particular way. Most are not very attractive, either, but the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. If you…

Do you want the state to have a monopoly on violence or not? Credit: Patrick Thomas The U.S. has a knack for adopting failed policies from abroad five to fifteen years after their expiration date passes: France’s war in Vietnam;…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If you’ve heard “We Are the World,” the 1985 charity single by the American super-duper group U.S.A. for Africa, you might be forgiven for wondering why a documentary about it, recently…