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Who’s afraid of psychoanalysis? Yorgos Lanthimos. Or, at least, that’s the prevailing impression from Poor Things. Lanthimos’s adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel is a certified hit, nominated fo

It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. I’ve carved out a few precious hours for coding, armed with a steaming cup of coffee and the familiar urge to dive into a project. As I settle into my chair and open m

Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Open Questions A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most. August 27, 2024 Illustration by

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It’s hard to know what to make of the newest effort by László Krasznahorkai, Spadework for a Palace. The novella concerns an aging librarian at the New York Public Library named herman melvill. He is

“What I really want is to work on…is strategy,” I’ve heard from colleagues on every team I’ve been on. And it’s no surprise — big strategy projects can sometimes seem like the most exciting and high-p

The reason I've spent so long establishing this rather obvious point [that writing helps you refine your thinking] is that it leads to another that many people will find shocking. If writing down your

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No figure in the whole of English literature is as reviled as the critic. He seems to have been invented to provoke scorn and skepticism. Among the first men to borrow from the Latin criticus (“one wh

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Each boy had an alcove and a curtain to pull in front of it, but the other boys did not regard what was within the boundaries of that cloth-and-plywood square as your personal space. These days, other people, like my fellow third formers, can wander in and out of my on-line personal space almost at…

Prelude: Michael Levin is a scientist at Tufts University who many have described as one of the most revolutionary biologists of our age. His work has been featured everywhere from Scientific American

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Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I

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In the Spring Books issue, on the occasion of Cathy Curtis’s new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick, Merve Emre writes about the restless critic who cofounded the New York Review and contributed more tha

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I lost my first language at the age of four. Before that age, I spoke and understood, and then, like so much else, the words fell away during my one-way trip over the Atlantic Ocean. Here is a black v

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Driver flees ahead of a worsening dust storm during the Dust Bowl; Texas Panhandle, 1936. The higher ground is getting pricey. That’s because how fast we go may be the world we get1, but where you liv

Solemos olvidar que el primer partido creado en nuestro país fue un partido de oposición. En 1887, Antonio Taboada fue arrestado por osar candidatarse en oposición a Bernardino Caballero. Unos días de

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On a warm day last spring, dozens of protesters gathered outside a shopping center on the west side of Hawaii’s Big Island. They weren’t there to boycott a store or a pipeline or to deride a politicia

Secondary Gain is an anti-advice column. It follows in the tradition of other psychoanalytic experiments that have opened up the consulting room using media: from Susan Isaacs’s advice columns in the

Lamenting a life lived online. My generation was the first to fully come of age online. The end result is, in a word, cringe. Like every generation, we believe ourselves uniquely differentiated from t

Big Cheese Photo/Getty Images Project managers, in theory, are some of the best candidates to become CEOs of their organizations. In their daily work, they must bring together all the disparate aspect

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Originally published in Arabic, this is our first piece in a rolling online issue about Palestine, born out of both the unfolding genocide in Gaza, in the aftermath of October 7th, and ongoing content