To pretend otherwise is just to build the walls of your sandcastle higher. | Continue reading
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Once upon a time, a new Pynchon or DeLillo was an event. Now, Adam Levin's latest Mega-Novel raises questions about what, if anything, this type of fiction has left to say. | Continue reading
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Steven Donziger has been under house arrest for over 580 days, awaiting trial on a misdemeanor charge. It’s all, he says, because he beat a multinational energy corporation in court. | Continue reading
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An unfiltered and (mostly) unsentimental look at New York City's grittier era. | Continue reading
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A collection of photos from the '70s shows a subway system overwhelmed by graffiti (and crime). | Continue reading
Morse, who died at 90 this week, summed up his seven decade career in a performance of "The Best Things in Life Are Free." | Continue reading
For two weeks in March, at an abandoned chemical warehouse in Lviv, we taught civilian volunteers how to defend themselves against Russian invaders. | Continue reading
As another adaptation of a tech start-up scandal hits screens this week with AppleTV+'s 'WeCrashed,' there’s something indescribably satisfying in watching so many fine actors portray ethically challenged humans getting impaled on the horns of their own unicorns. | Continue reading
I marked the two-year anniversary of the pandemic the way I do most nights now: waking up with a start and blearily checking my watch. It's 3am, 4, 4:30, if I'm lucky. Eventually, I accept that I'm awake. It's the same thing I was doing two years ago-wake up, grab my phone, start … | Continue reading
No one else has played the straight man and the stooge so effectively. | Continue reading
Fantasy is the oldest genre of literature, but its best release ever landed just six years ago. | Continue reading
The network that has given us too much good for our own good. | Continue reading
After years of high-profile shootings, policing in America is under more scrutiny than at any time in our history. Meanwhile, one company—which sells policy handbooks to police departments across the country—seems determined to give officers cover. | Continue reading
'The Book of Boba Fett' continued the unholy mission that began in 'The Mandalorian' to resurrect the dead. I'm still scared. | Continue reading
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On a remote island in Maine, a group of friends thought they witnessed one man killing another with an ax. But no one was ever arrested. In a small town far out at sea, justice sometimes works a little differently. | Continue reading
Stealing magic has become a commonplace crime. Teller, a man of infinite delicacy and deceit, decided to do something about it. | Continue reading
We’re at the bottom, not the peak, of the wave of sick kids, just as schools are re-opening. We have to talk about this. | Continue reading
An exploration of the anti-consumerism music that died the way it lived. | Continue reading
"I've learned enough to know what a bitter pill regret is. That’s why I was so vocal in saying that I wanted the job. I wanted the opportunity to compete." | Continue reading
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In thirty-eight years, The Price is Right never had a contestant guess the exact value of prizes in the Showcase showdown. Until Terry Kniess came on — and changed everything. | Continue reading
A talk with the visionary director who turned a series about cars into Hollywood's most inclusive and beloved franchise. | Continue reading
Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice. The brains behind this pop-culture phenomenon explain how it happened. | Continue reading
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts, took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same. | Continue reading
This story is about something called Radical Honesty. It may change your life. (But honestly, we don't really care.) | Continue reading
So you don't have a lawn. Author Jeff VanderMeer, who transformed his backyard ravine in Florida, shares eight steps that'll still allow you to do your part. | Continue reading
Too much has been lost, in big ways and in small, to simply set the clock back to 2019 and pretend nothing happened. | Continue reading
Call me crazy, but I think a "scorched-earth Senate" would look a lot like it did under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. | Continue reading
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Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds. | Continue reading
Last winter, after three weeks in sub-zero temperatures, the 30 year-old emerged from the Alaskan wilderness with only his life. How on earth did he do it? | Continue reading
He’s a dad from Wisconsin who drives a “piece of shit” Corolla. And his brilliantly absurd artwork has made him the face of a crypto market you didn’t know existed. | Continue reading
For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse. | Continue reading
How one dad raised five monster-athlete sons--three of whom played in the NFL, and one of whom played in the Super Bowl. | Continue reading
The details are indescribably bad, and they should enrage Americans and embarrass any company doing business with China. | Continue reading
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was as much a revolutionary as he was a conciliator—as much a revolutionary as Samuel Adams, or Denmark Vesey, or Michael Collins, or Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela. | Continue reading
The behind-the-scenes story of Bryan Goldberg’s audacious plan to revive Gawker—and his intentions to revive it yet again. | Continue reading