J. Kenji López-Alt Says You’re Cooking Just Fine

Ahead of the release of his new book, “The Wok,” the food columnist reflects on kitchen-bro culture, who gets credit for recipes, and how not to be an asshole. | Continue reading


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Russia’s Last Independent TV Channel Covers the Invasion of Ukraine

In Moscow, the small staff of TV Rain works through another endless night. | Continue reading


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Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

The West condemns Russia’s aggression as “barbaric” and “horrific,” as Biden warns that conflict could drag on for weeks or months. | Continue reading


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Miyazaki has created the most difficult games of the century

Miyazaki has created the most difficult games of the century. In his latest, “Elden Ring,” he wants a broader audience to feel the pain. | Continue reading


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How the Kosovo Air War Foreshadowed the Crisis in Ukraine

Twenty-three years later, Kremlin propagandists still use the NATO bombing campaign to justify their own actions. | Continue reading


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The Medical Miracle of a Pig's Heart in a Human Body

The first successful transplantation may solve a donor shortage, but this major scientific advancement is not without challenges. | Continue reading


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Hito Steyerl's Digital Visions

Her savage, mischievous works about surveillance, automation, digital platforms, and the art market have made her one of the most revered figures in the mercurial world of contemporary art. | Continue reading


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Can You Warm Yourself with Your Mind?

The human body generates its own heat. Some people can adjust the thermostat. | Continue reading


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Dean Baquet Never Wanted to Be an Editor

Ahead of his expected retirement, the Times’ executive editor reflects on his newsroom’s unprecedented growth, Twitter’s influence on journalism, and the time he punched a hole in a wall. | Continue reading


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David Hockney’s Fruitful Isolation

From his home in Normandy, the eighty-four-year-old artist shows off a new series of portrait paintings and discusses all of the work he still has left to do. | Continue reading


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Newspaper, zine, manifesto, meme

A new book argues that what we say, and how we say it, affects whether radical ideas can change the world. | Continue reading


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Smart Things I Have Done While You Were Watching Sportsball

Silently congratulated myself in Trader Joe’s after realizing that I didn’t know who won the most recent N.B.A. Finals. | Continue reading


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The Rise of “Immersive” Art

Why are tech-centric, projection-based exhibits suddenly everywhere? | Continue reading


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A gambling sharp breaks into the NFL

Warren Sharp says he’s the only analyst “in the betting space” who works with N.F.L. teams. Do those dual roles constitute a conflict of interest? | Continue reading


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The Mothers of Family Photos

The female image is ubiquitous on social media, yet when it comes to pictures of parents with their children many moms feel disappeared. | Continue reading


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The Semiotics of a 1999 Toyota Corolla

The YouTube channel Regular Car Reviews delights in cultural critiques of boring automobiles. | Continue reading


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The Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons That Photographed Earth from Above

An early-twentieth-century camera enabled, for the first time, the taking of pictures that afforded a bird’s-eye view. | Continue reading


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The Goat Boy Rises (1993)

In 1993, the acid-tongued comedian delivered a tart set on David Letterman’s show. Then CBS censored him. | Continue reading


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Why King Tut Is Still Fascinating

He was a minor pharaoh, and the excavation of his tomb was a disreputable affair. But, a century later, there is more to learn. | Continue reading


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Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan

As welcome as the recent protests are, they do not address the fundamental injustice of the streaming economy. | Continue reading


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The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London

Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect, Multicultural London English—and my American-born son is learning it. | Continue reading


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Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?

Kim Stanley Robinson’s novels envision the dire problems of the future—but also their solutions. | Continue reading


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How Elizabeth Taylor Remade the Novel of Old Age

The genre has always flitted between cruelty and sentimentality. In “Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,” Taylor found a different mode. | Continue reading


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The Marxist Who Antagonizes Liberals and the Left

The renowned Black scholar Adolph Reed opposes the politics of anti-racism, describing it as a cover for capitalism. | Continue reading


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Led Zeppelin Gets into Your Soul

The musicians were diabolically bad as people, and satanically good as performers. | Continue reading


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America's Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric

Ford’s F-series trucks make up the best-selling vehicle line in the U.S. Can its new F-150 Lightning compete with Tesla in the E.V. market? | Continue reading


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In quieter corners DAOs are forging a new ecosystem for digital startups

The blockchain business model has made headlines for sensational ploys. But in quieter corners DAOs are forging a promising new ecosystem for digital startups. | Continue reading


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Chopin’s Nocturnes Are Arias for the Piano

A sublime new recording by Stephen Hough teases out the bel-canto beauty of the celebrated cycle. | Continue reading


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Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court. | Continue reading


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When N.F.T.s Invade an Art Town

Marfa, Texas, is known for its highbrow arts scene. A new gallery is unsettling that image. | Continue reading


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The social-media platform’s status as a relic of the Internet has attracted prodigal users as well as new ones. | Continue reading


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Can Gettr Become the Online Gathering Place for Trump’s GOP?

With Big Tech cracking down on COVID-19 and election misinformation, sites with more permissive posting rules are courting prominent figures on the right. | Continue reading


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Blood, Simpler – New Yorker on Elizabeth Holmes (2014)

If Elizabeth Holmes succeeds, getting a blood test could become a lot easier for patients. Ken Auletta reports. | Continue reading


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It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity

We need fewer things to work on. Starting now. | Continue reading


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The Psychological Drama of the World Chess Championship

The match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi began as the most accurate in history. Then Nepomniachtchi unravelled. | Continue reading


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The Best Video Games of 2021

As the industry confronts its cultural failings, smaller, more independent games have stepped into the breach. | Continue reading


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Escaping into the Crossword Puzzle

If, by the dumb logic of my eating disorder, I was losing something special about myself by gaining weight, I was bolstering my self-esteem by creating crosswords, something I knew to be difficult, precocious, and exceptional. | Continue reading


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The senator’s blockade against programs that have helped his constituents escape poverty makes some question “who matters to Joe.” | Continue reading


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Comma

On the case of the Maine milk-truck drivers who, for want of a comma, won an appeal against their employer, Oakhurst Dairy. | Continue reading


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The Catch-22 of Addressing Election Security

How do politicians contend with the weaknesses in the voting system without fuelling baseless claims of election fraud? | Continue reading


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An Education While Incarcerated

What Eddy Zheng taught himself—and me—when he was in prison. | Continue reading


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The Baby-Box Lady of America

With the help of safe-haven laws, which allow parents to anonymously surrender their babies, Monica Kelsey has installed more than ninety baby boxes—mailbox-like receptacles for infants—in five states. | Continue reading


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Breaking with the Faith That American Meritocracy Works

Michael Sandel thinks that the Biden Administration is fulfilling its most important task: breaking with the faith that American meritocracy works. | Continue reading


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A New Leaf

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Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?

The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors. | Continue reading


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A Tribute to the Nintendo Engineer Masayuki Uemura

His game consoles linked the Japanese and Western imaginations, with repercussions that are still being felt today. | Continue reading


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Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday

When the company went public this past week, ex-staffers learned something alarming: they were unable to sell the stock that they had waited years to trade. | Continue reading


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Paul Thomas Anderson on What Makes a Movie Great

The director of “Licorice Pizza” discusses his writing process, choosing actors, and how you can tell when you are on a good film set. | Continue reading


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