Catholic communicants are asked at Easter, “Do you renounce the glamour of evil, and refuse to be mastered by sin?” The question preserves a conflation, now rare, of glamour and sorcery: glamour was a quality that confounds, shifts shapes, invests a thing with a mysterious aura; it was, as Sir…

From 2009 to 2013, every book I read, I read on a screen. And then I stopped. You could call my four years of devout screen‑reading an experiment. I felt a duty – not to anyone or anything specificall

Tavi Gevinson is the founding editor-in-chief of Rookie. “I know that I cried because as soon as I wear myself out, what wells up first is love.” I share this line on twitter with a link to Lena’s ent

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In coun

Whenever a young person comes to me for career counsel I let loose a dramatic sigh, fix her with a steely stare and deliver the following discourse, which is drawn on more than a decade’s experience spent toiling in this industry: “If you want to succeed, find a field in its infancy, one with no…

Snapshot Hari Nef Adds Another Layer to ‘Transparent’ Hari Nef is joining the cast of “Transparent.”Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Some women really know how to make an entrance. Consider H

Credit...Photo Illustration by Andrea D'Aquino Definitive answers to the big questions. Credit...Photo Illustration by Andrea D'Aquino By Ms. Rosen is a journalist with a Ph.D. in geology. Her researc

Near midnight on Monday Gay Talese was tucked into a corner booth in the downstairs bar at the 21 Club, sipping a Bombay martini with a twist, with a specimen from his much-admired hat collection sitt

Earlier this fall, Antonio Banderas, a.k.a. Zorro, began taking classes in menswear design at Central Saint Martins, the renowned London fashion school. In an interview with the school’s student-run Web site and magazine, Banderas explained that he wanted to start his own menswear line; his…

Its achievements are undeniable. Having hosted what some historians call the greatest creation of wealth in human history,1 the San Francisco Bay Area had the fastest growth rate in the United States

My sister and I recently toured the retirement community where my mother has announced she’ll be moving. I have been in some bleak clinical facilities for the elderly where not one person was compos mentis and I had to politely suppress the urge to flee, but this was nothing like that. It was a very…

Illustration by María Inés Gul. Regret, in my head, sounds like Joanna Newsom’s voice: I have often turned to her music in endings, in trying to remember beginnings, to parse everything in between, to

Powys begins with the tenet that “culture is what is left over after you have forgotten all you have definitely set out to learn” and sets out to examine what, exactly, is left over — which is often too surprising and subtle, too aglow with inarticulable radiances, to fit into our intellectual…

Interview with “New York Magazine” Associate Editor Joe Coscarelli Joe Coscarelli is 23-years-old and is an Associate Editor at New York Magazine. Yes, he is killing it. He previously worked at The Vi

"I'll never be your dream girl," sings Claire Boucher on "Butterfly", the final song on Art Angels, her most audacious album to date. Perhaps she's just being coy, because for many she is exactly that. In the age of the female pop auteur, Boucher's work as Grimes is a glorious addition to the canon,…

Boucher is a veteran of Montreal’s underground scene (her first release was 2010’s murky-pretty lo-fi tape Gedi Primes, named after a planet in Dune), but she’s just as much a child of the internet — which is to say a resident of everywhere. Grimes’s music has become such perennial think-piece…

After the image of a Brooklyn student named Vidal captured widespread attention on the Humans of New York blog, he and the photographer, Brandon Stanton, were invited to the White House.PHOTOGRAPH BY

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Last fall at Oberlin College, a talk held as part of Latino Heritage Month was scheduled on the same evening that intramural soccer games were held. As a result, soccer players communicated by email a

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at them, is to be openly critical — this is actually nonsense. Some of the most effective ways in which you deal with someone’s idea are to treat them completely at face value, and with an enormous amount…

Ryan Murphy has a weakness for women having breakdowns. The TV show creator and director lives for the broken lady: the delusional, tempestuous middle-aged woman who’s lost all self-control, like the totalitarian cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, or the actual witches of American Horror…

Last Saturday night at London’s Royal Academy, I watched two men attempt to play the internet like an instrument. More specifically, it was a performance called Network Ensemble, which involved taking

In April, I settled an argument with myself. After years of assuming that a small and compact phone was what I wanted, I realized that the iPhone 6 Plus was the pocket computer for me. The size, harde

Is “Sorry” an acceptable cap to Bieber’s year of penitence? By all accounts, this has been an eventful month for template-skewing music videos. Adele planted herself in a clearing and theatrically cla

14 min read· May 31, 2015 -- Those who are no longer purely driven by financial gain are now creating the building blocks for an entire economy in which money no longer has value. As we proceed toward

When I look back at my Instagram, here’s what I don’t see: That most of the time I felt ugly, even as I was taking selfies; that I didn’t really feel like the friends I took those fun photos with were always there for me; that school was sort of hell sometimes. But what I posted never felt fake,…

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Photos: See Jaden Smith Wear Fall’s Trippiest Clothes Jaden Smith has a game he likes to play whenever he's in public, or whenever he's stating something that will eventually become public—such as rig

Coffee played an integral role in the early-2000s mother-daughter psychodrama Gilmore Girls , and Luke Danes, the town’s dinerman, was its primary purveyor. Much was made throughout the series about h

This image was removed due to legal reasons. Isabel Allende needs no introduction, but we will introduce her anyway. Allende is a Chilean author whose debut novel was the magical realist sensation La

Gilmore Girls is one of the great triumphs of modern TV—a sharp, endlessly rewatchable dramedy that holds up better than most new television, with a Netflix fanbase as wide as its original audience on

TV shows are rarely underrated anymore. The days of a pretty good show having one season and getting canceled (“Freaks and Geeks” being a prime example) are, for the most part, over. Now there are fan

In the late spring of 1967, Joan Didion, accompanied by a photojournalist named Ted Streshinsky, began making trips from Berkeley, where she was staying, to Haight-Ashbury, to do research for a piece

The evolutionary value of ‘artistic‘ skills when predators are few The magnificent riflebird ( Ptiloris magnificus ) has evolved in a habitat largely free of predators and other existential threats. T

The Greats A Very Revealing Conversation With Rihanna Credit...Portrait by Craig McDean. Styled by Mel Ottenberg I DRESSED VERY CAREFULLY for her, the way I would for a good friend, thinking hard abou

Frank Ocean / frankocean.tumblr.com I was in bed with a stranger when I first saw a tweet about Frank Ocean’s now infamous 2012 Tumblr post—the one in which the singer revealed that his debut album, C

For most writers, cool is a word that rarely tops the list of personality descriptors. Neurotic and introverted are generally in heavier rotation. For women writers, you can add solipsistic and confes

In 100 years it will not be acceptable to use genderised words such as ‘he’ or ‘she’, which are loaded with centuries of prejudice and reduce a spectrum of greys to black and white. We will use the pr

by Joe Berkowitz and Hallie Bateman Some people say they have no regrets. I regret things about this morning. (Also yesterday morning. Pretty much any morning.) Show me a person with no regrets and I’

On a Friday morning in April, I strapped on a headset, leaned into a microphone, and experienced what had been described to me as a type of time travel to the future of higher education. I was on the