World
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Strides”
On Sunday, November 3, 2024, more than fifty thousand people from all over the world will participate in the New York City Marathon—an event that many New Yorkers deem...
The Mystery of Three Hundred Bodies in the Woods
How should the living treat the dead? More specifically, what should we do with their bodies, and why? The answers to these questions, like the mysteries of death itself,...
Does the Enlightenment’s Great Female Intellect Need Rescuing?
Historians championing previously marginalized intellectual and literary figures are often caught on the horns of an odd dilemma. On the one hand, the subject—the woman scientist, the Black composer,...
Jesse Eisenberg Has a Few Questions
Vanessa Redgrave once compared Jesse Eisenberg to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, because of his “inquiring mind.” Seventeen minutes into my recent lunch with Eisenberg, in Chelsea, I had...
Soccer Mommy’s Visceral Chronicle of Loss
The earliest iteration of Soccer Mommy emerged out of a bedroom in the summer of 2015, with a handful of lo-fi, home-recorded songs posted to Bandcamp. The songs were...
Baseball Is for the Losers
Angell, Gammons, and I now rode the elevator. In the Boston clubhouse, a crowd of reporters surrounded Buckner’s locker, waiting. Cruel jokes were already being worked up. (Question: What...
Bill T. Jones’s Controversial “Still/Here,” Thirty Years Later
Alaska Thunderfuck in “Drag: The Musical.”Photograph by Matthew MurphyDrag, at its best, is a union of glamour and camp, spectacle and heart. “Drag: The Musical”—a tale of two night...
Orna Guralnik on the Entanglement of Politics and Private Life
Since 2019, the Brooklyn-based psychotherapist Orna Guralnik has been counselling couples onscreen in the documentary TV series “Couples Therapy.” As Guralnik’s clients contend with anxieties about devotion, desire, fidelity,...
The Frightening Familiarity of Late-Nineties Office Photos
In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional portrayal of white-collar work. The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in...
What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life?
As an obsessed amateur photographer, I spend too much time reading photography forums on the Internet. Not long ago, I came across a particularly plaintive discussion. “Let’s say, hypothetically,...
