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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...
The City Where Paint Became Art
Chop down a poplar tree. Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes....
How I Fell Back in Love with iPhone Photography
There’s a Japanese word, komorebi, that describes beams of light and dappled shadows that result when the sun shines through trees. When I take my dog on walks around...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative
It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first give an opinion column. “A live coffin,” a former newspaper colleague of mine...
Rachel Bloom Has a Funny Song About Death
At the start of 2020, the comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Bloom was riding high. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical TV show that she had co-created and starred in, had...
A Bronx “Family Album” from Hip-Hop’s Early Days
Many of the photos he took during those early years appear in “The South Bronx Family Album.” In addition to Joey, who is pictured sitting cross-legged in a Buddha-like...
Owen Smith’s “Alexei Navalny”
The cover of the October 21, 2024, issue, by Owen Smith, is a portrait of Alexei Navalny, an excerpt of whose prison diaries appears in the issue. Navalny details...
