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In “Late Fame,” a newly translated satire by Arthur Schnitzler, an aging Viennese civil servant is crowned a master poet, virtually out of nowhere. | Continue reading
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Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. | Continue reading
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I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call. | Continue reading
In his writing and on Twitter, James Rebanks conveys what it means to participate in the land in the twenty-first century. | Continue reading
Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past? | Continue reading