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What Can Memoirs by Supreme Court Justices Teach Us?
“Fools” is one of Neil Simon’s lesser plays. It involves a schoolmaster who, in some imaginary past, is sent to a Ukrainian village whose residents are burdened with a...
The Unexpected Pleasures of a Dirty Soda
The other day, while exploring Saratoga Springs, Utah, a small city between Provo and Salt Lake, I wandered into an outpost of Deseret Book, a chain of religious-goods stores...
Eric Drooker’s “Crushing Wealth”
The cover of the October 28, 2024, Money special issue, is Eric Drooker’s fortieth for the magazine. The native New Yorker, who illustrated Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” sees the financial...
The Vivid Second Life of a Mexican Supper Club
In a colorful space in Hamilton Heights, Cocina Consuelo does serious renditions of beef birria, mole negro, and cinnamon-scented café de olla. Source link
Do You Remember School?
I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in,...
“No Other Land” Puts a Palestinian Neighborhood on the World Map
The documentary “No Other Land” combines first-person filmmaking with journalistic observation, experience with analysis, to depict demolitions in the Palestinian area of Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, by Israeli forces,...
Scary Movies for Spooky Season
Rachel SymeStaff writerThere is little better, when the weather turns just chilly enough to necessitate a big scarf and a leather jacket, than to duck into a movie theatre...
A Hundred-and-Nineteen-Year-Old Book That Explains Eric Adams
Mayor Eric Adams says he plans to write a memoir about the corruption scandal currently engulfing his administration. “All this is going in my book,” he told reporters at...
Rage, Revenge, and Recovery Battle It Out in Virginie Despentes’s #MeToo Novel
On March 1, 2020, roughly two weeks before the COVID lockdown began in France, the French writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes published an essay in the left-leaning paper Libération....
Jennifer Doudna on the Brave New World Being Ushered In by Gene Editing
In 2012, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier developed a method for using RNA-guided proteins to edit specific sections of DNA. Their innovation—for which the two...
