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The End of the iPhone Upgrade?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The largest Apple Store in Washington, D.C., occupies the neoclassical shell of the former Carnegie Library. Last Friday, it opened two hours early, at 8 A.M., for the launch of the…

Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Half Century of Self-Portraits

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In Annie Ernaux’s novelistic memoir “The Years,” she charts how a woman’s selfhood can slip away as she becomes enmeshed in new identities such as wife or mother. Through photographs, though,…

How Powerful Is Political Charm?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Back in July, the journalist Ezra Klein interviewed Elaina Plott Calabro, a staff writer at The Atlantic, on his popular podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show.” Calabro had profiled Kamala Harris the…

The Mormon TikTok Moms Are All of Us

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It makes a lot of sense that the lives of popular TikTok stars would serve as irresistible fodder for reality television. The combination of attention-courting, attractive-looking subjects experiencing sudden, tenuous fame,…

The Mormon Swinger Moms Are All of Us

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It makes a lot of sense that the lives of popular TikTok stars would serve as irresistible fodder for reality television. The combination of attention-courting, attractive-looking subjects experiencing sudden, tenuous fame,…

A Photographer’s Vision of Queer Life in Colombia

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In April, Milo Mosquera led the photographer Camila Falquez and her team through the woods near Cali, Colombia, where he lives. By a bend in the Pance River he removed his…

“Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The sweetness of historical vindication pervades “Winner,” Susanna Fogel’s bio-pic about Reality Winner, who, in 2018, pleaded guilty to retaining and transmitting national-defense information to the media, while employed by a…

The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On August 31st, Jennifer Lopez posted sixteen pictures for her two hundred and fifty-one million followers on Instagram, under the gnomic caption “Oh, it was a summer.” Coming in the wake…

How Should We Create Things?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1977, the artist, musician, and producer Brian Eno was in Berlin, working with David Bowie on the album that would become “Heroes.” They’d been collaborating on a song in an…