Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On August 24th, Pavel Durov, the billionaire Russian founder of Telegram, a messaging app and social network, was detained after his private plane landed outside of Paris, from Baku, Azerbaijan. At…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story El País, arguably the most prestigious Spanish-language news organization of the past half century, and whose slogan is “The Global Newspaper,” has just made one of the more seemingly obvious moves…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some filmmakers have remade their own films, others have made adapted works they created in other media, many have made films about filmmaking, and many more have dramatized their private lives.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish-born photographer Andrew McConnell first started going to Kazakhstan because he wanted to see a Soyuz space capsule fall out of the sky. At the time, in 2015, the capsule,…
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. The shiny BP gas station that occupies the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer who secretly desires to be a writer. One day, after completing construction of the world’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’m going to be straight here: I love celebrities. I love thinking about them, reading about them, and writing about them. There’s also little that brings me more pleasure than spotting…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Incident.” The opening of Bill Morrison’s short film “Incident” is silent. Security footage shows a section of a Chicago street on what looks to be an ordinary summer afternoon. A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For an entertainer, a casino gig is a double-edged sword. It can be a lucrative booking, a sign that you’ve entered a rarefied tier of bankability. But casino crowds can be…