Tech Fix The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social Facebook, TikTok and Twitter seem to be increasingly connecting users with brands and influencers. To restore a sense of community, some users

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Long before the invention of the general-purpose computer, bureaucrats and researchers had begun gathering and cross-tabulating sets of numbers about populations—heights, weights, ages, sexes, races, political parties, incomes—using punch cards and tabulating machines. By the nineteen-thirties,…

Is True Love Possible? Readers Are Turning to This 1990s Novel for Answers. Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships.

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Sasha Frere-Jones In the prose stylist’s indelible writing, so many right notes the wrong notes don’t matter. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick,

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In twelve years of lifting weights, I can’t say that I’ve ever attempted a sissy squat. Yet the name intrigues me, like a tickle in my brain. I know that it is an exercise of some kind, working out so

A year ago, I lost my best friend, Oliver Sacks. For many years, each week, Oliver and I would cruise north on the West Side bike path at sunrise. Alone, our bicycles a few inches apart, we spoke abou

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Once upon a time, a certain kind of fairy tale goes, the most interesting and articulate minds in the world converged in dank Manhattan apartments to debate the merits of literary fiction and Trotskyi

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For a while now, the media has been debating the cause of a wave of teenage unhappiness in the U.S. The other day, the Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz posted a series of tweets in which she argue

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In our Winter issue, we published Mieko Kanai’s “Tap Water,” a story whose remarkable first sentence spills across more than two pages and describes the interior of the narrator’s new apartment as if

Pamela Paul and I met twice, in the same Times conference room, and on both occasions she wore a black biker jacket. She paired it with soft skirts in floral print or pink stripes: a look to suit a pr

Mike Hadreas, the musician known as Perfume Genius, recently binge-watched the early-aughts teen drama Gilmore Girls for the first time. I know this from Twitter . As a Perfume Genius fan, and as some

If you’ve ever read one of Naomi Fry’s pieces for The New Yorker — or follow her on social media, for that matter — you know that her sense of humor and ability to curate culture into text (from highb

Making the rounds this week was a mundane critique of AI that was notable mainly because it was made by musician Nick Cave, who was unsurprisingly unimpressed by ludicrous ChatGPT efforts to mimic his

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Jay Duplass is a busy man. When I visited him recently at the comfortable but unostentatious home in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock where he lives with his wife, Jen Tracy-Duplass, a

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1. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. An ambitious project—but sensible, I think. And it seems to me that contemporary American poetry is afflic

Community college was paradise. The cost per credit was $16 and the campus resembled an outlet mall. My classmates included people of all ages, races, creeds, and stages of pregnancy. Due to budget cu

The funny thing about sleeplessness is how action-packed it is. Late last night I lay in bed doing my best to mimic a corpse while my brain played pinball. I switched to my stomach, back, side. Opened

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Jumpsuit by Fendi. Glasses Stylist’s Own. In Cinnamon in the Wind, Kate Berlant’s 2019 stand-up special, released this year after lingering in a kind of post-production purgatory, the 35-year-old come

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Five weeks to the day after my debut novel was published, my boyfriend, who is a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer. I’ve been a writer for a long time. So has he. Until this summer, he wa

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Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried ab

This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on

Last year, when my mother moved apartments, I came into possession of a largeish Prada box full of my childhood diaries. They go from 1981—I was four, and dictated the diary to my aunt—up to the ninet