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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Recently, just before lunch with the Scottish author Ali Smith, at Moro, a beloved North African and Mediterranean place in London’s Exmouth Market, I locked myself out of my new phone.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined Facebook.” Social media had grown…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in the past decade or two, dance-music d.j.s discovered a way of punctuating their sets with a prank. Just as the music was reaching a crescendo, it would…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the faux aristocracy that is Hollywood, a Blake Lively should not have reason to meaningfully cross paths with a Justin Baldoni. Lively, best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Biographies of great artists are of inherent interest, but in the case of Terrence Malick, one of the greatest living filmmakers, there’s an extra fascination because of the great question mark…

Brady Corbet’s Brutalist threatens to crush its audience. Credit: Andriy Baidak/Shutterstock The architectural term “Brutalism” is often subject to a false etymology. Most people think it refers to the force exerted by some of the more muscular Brutalist buildings, but…

The LA fires bring to mind the less rarefied side of the stars. (By Maks Ershov/Shutterstock) I have never set foot in California, but as I watched the awful, authentically apocalyptic images this week of Los Angeles overtaken by fire…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The last time I talked to Colman Domingo, in 2021, his life was completely different. At fifty-one, he was a successful character actor, the kind whose face you might recognize from…

Pennsylvania’s Christian Pulisic has led AC Milan to glory. AC Milan was dead in the water. Down 2-0 in the second half to rivals Inter Milan, AC, which had entered the day as big underdogs to win the Italian Supercoppa,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The glow in the photos coming out of Los Angeles is otherworldly, though that is precisely the wrong term. Cinematic? That isn’t quite right, either: too painfully apt for Tinseltown, but…