For many young people getting a higher education in Europe is a dream come true. And all because a European diploma is prestigious and opens up great prospects for future life. All educational institutions in Europe have their own history…
A few years ago, in the commercial afterglow of a wave of successful books on hygge, defined as the “quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality,” English-language publishers released several books touting the benefits of the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku—or forest…
Nominations for the ninety-fifth Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, and included five nods for films released by The New Yorker. Among the magazine’s nominees are a pair of documentary shorts, along with a trio of…
Antonin Niclass and Vladimir Krasilnikov observed people at a London station to create the paper-doll-like cast of “Do Not Feed the Pigeons.” The director Antonin Niclass has always been drawn to portraying loneliness and ugliness—which is why his latest muse…
A few weeks ago, a YouTube video of a 1967 performance of the catchy tune “Georgy Girl” popped up on my computer screen. Remembering the song from my childhood—and only the song, not the group singing it, since I was…
With the CANS law, “it wasn’t about policing a certain kind of conduct,” the director Matt Nadel said. “It was about policing a certain kind of person.” In 1982, a local news station in New Orleans broadcast a documentary called…
On the morning of January 10, 1969, thirteen graduate students gathered inside Yale’s Art and Architecture Building to give their final presentations in a studio led by the married architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. The students had spent…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “This book I offer you is the book of desire, my dream of leaving my mark on you, in you,” Steven Klein writes in a note at the beginning of his…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What’s in a middle name? Pretty much the whole megillah, for the media scion known as Kendall Logan Roy. That middle name is more than just his father’s branding—it’s the gravitational…
The French Alps are popular for their ski slopes, chalets and warm welcome. We want to tell you about the best resorts in France (Courchevel, Val Thorens and Les Arcs), in winter it is customary not only to relax, but…