Right now, it is impossible to imagine capitalism functioning without the century-and-a-half-old industry of advertising. It is not just a part of the so-called superstructure but deeply nested, close to capitalism’s beating heart. Despite tech companies’ frequent claims to innovation and disruption…

Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash Recommendation media is the new standard for content distribution. Here’s why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world. Michael Mignano 9 min read· Jul 27, 2022 -- Last week, Meta announced that the Facebook newsfeed would be shifting towards an…

Strange as it sounds, scientists still do not know the answers to some of the most basic questions about how life on Earth evolved. Take eyes, for instance. Where do they come from, exactly? The usual explanation of how we got these stupendously complex organs rests upon the theory of natural…

When was the first time you realized Catholicism was … different? For me it was during my friend’s confirmation at a Lutheran church, filled with tall, stoic Scandinavians in a handsome but mostly featureless room. Protestants, it seemed, were allergic to the type of excess and drama that defined…

View Full Images THAT’S WHAT YOU DO—YOU BECOME THE FLANEUR. I NEVER HAD SO MUCH FREE TIME IN MY LIFE AS I DID WHEN I LIVED IN PARIS. EDMUND WHITE Everyone says he or she wants to live in Paris, but the reality is somewhat daunting—a strange language spoken rapidly, a culture that rivals and a…

The author Patricia Highsmith at her home in Montcourt-Fromonville, France, 1978. T Book Club In ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’ a Shape-Shifting Protagonist Who’s Up to No Good Patricia Highsmith publishe

Photo: Walker Bunting This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The emperor of no fucks wore a maroon T-shirt over his mesomorphic frame. He had a light beard and a short ponytail, and he was wearing can headphones and…

Think Least of Death FT Feeling free: a new study explores Spinoza’s homo liber. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die, by Steven Nadler, Princeton University Press, 234 pages, $17.95 • • • It’s not easy, living. Our human existence is an ongoing experience of what Baruch…

Though I will make the trip up the ele­vator to Janet Malcolm’s stately town-­house apartment, overlooking Gramercy Park, three times in the course of this unusual interview, the substance of our exchange will take place by ­e-mail, over three and a half months. The reason for this is that Janet…

Breadcrumbs If you spend time perusing social media, most of the posts you see on your feed are self-contained bites of information. But every once in a while, you come across something that seems like the hook to a larger story, extending beyond the formal parameters of a single post. Imagine for a…

The internet is great, but the internet goes down. Disasters, government interference, and simple technical difficulties often fell the most powerful communication tool ever made. One man wants to change that and is building what he calls the “prepper version of the internet.” It’s called the…

Photos courtesy of Lykke Li. Lykke Li has spent the better part of her career exploring matters of the heart. Over five albums—her latest, EYEYE, is out as of last Friday (along with an arresting series of meta visuals)—the Swedish singer-songwriter embraces feelings of desire and rejection with…

critic’s notebook Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? David Shiffman’s “Why Sharks Matter” helps our critic, a surfer, see the creatures in a new, more appreciative light. Swimmers unaware of a white s

A friend asked if my preteen stint as a competitive gamer was a substitute for masturbation, or masturbation sublimated. She’s studying to be a psychoanalyst; she asks these kinds of questions. The answer is obviously, sort of, yes, if you like. Both endeavors can instantiate an oily timelessness. I…

[Gmail is going to clip this email, so just click on the title and read the whole thing in a web browser. Or unclip it when you reach the bottom. Up to you!] One of the most boring, and oft-repeated, narratives of the last couple of years is that of the "pandemic breakout." You're probably familiar…

In the first episode of Season 2 of Hacks , HBO Max’s alternately tender and biting series about the relationship that forms between two comedians at polar opposite points in their careers, the protag

Books This Is Your Life February 17, 2013 Adam Phillips tells his many readers not to worry about what might have been.Photograph by Boo George Adam Phillips, Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer, dislikes the modern notion that we should all be out there fulfilling our potential, and this is…

Photograph by Caryl González. In our Spring issue, we published selections from Annie Ernaux’s 1988 diaries, which chronicle the affair that served as the basis for her memoir Simple Passion. To mark the occasion, the Review has begun asking writers and artists for pages from their diaries, along…

Your seasonal update on the latest cool-kid app is in: BeReal, a French photo-sharing app that’s captured the hearts and candids of teens across the globe, has been crowned the new It app by all your friendly neighborhood bloodhounds on the online culture beat as well as the always on-it venture…

Morning Rises Over Kortedala: Jens Lekman On Revamping And Re-Releasing Two Of His Classic Albums Ellika Henrikson Q&A April 27, 2022 10:00 AM Oh You're So Silent Jens and Night Falls Over Kortedala h

Graphic design Nouveau Rebus is bringing back dingbats and glyphs one DTC branding project at a time Words by Elizabeth Goodspeed Published onApril 25th, 2022 Illustration by Tala Safié What are you seeing? In-line images and symbols, reminiscent of old chain ⛓ letter 💌 text messages or everybody’s…

WELCOME TO TALK HOLE , A MONTHLY TOPICAL CONVERSATION BETWEEN COMEDIANS ERIC SCHWARTAU AND STEVEN PHILLIPS-HORST. ERIC: I smell something. STEVEN: It’s eau de Musk, permeating the Twitterverse. ERIC:

The contemporary reader is unhappy. What troubles him? It’s the critics: they are lying to him. He encounters them on the back cover of every new book, promising the world. “An exhilarating debut, poignant and thrilling” . . . “A much-anticipated return, necessary and trenchant” . . . “Dazzling…

A road to somewhere. Dry Zone, Myanmar. Lauren Serota 9 min read· Feb 7, 2022 -- The below was originally written in mid-2020 — it’s still relevant. In May of 2020, Robert Fabricant reached out to practitioners in the frog:Impact alumni community (which he founded, and still fosters), seeking…

Share Prev If we built this: imagining an adland run by women The Insight Next Hybrid worlds and how the metaverse will pave the way for entering new realms What would you do if you could live in the internet, even just for a day? Where would you go if you could crawl inside it and paddle through…

"Upterrlainarluta.” Yup'ik, VERB: “to be wise in preparing for the unknowable."* PLACE IS THE KEY TO PREPAREDNESS When it comes to the planetary crisis, the most important question you can ask yourself is “Where?” It feels almost anachronistic to say it — in these days of globalization,…

At a startup like Glossier, a surprise department-wide meeting means one of two things: layoffs or treats. So when the tech department of the beauty phenomenon — well, what was then its tech department — was asked to gather for a visit from founder and CEO Emily Weiss on a late spring day in 2019, a…

It’s 1997 and I want to be cool. About to be twelve, and my mother, understanding the urgency of the mission, has finally agreed to let me shop in the grown-up section—albeit of a vintage store, Alice Underground, on lower Broadway. (For once in my life I am small, under-sized in fact, and she says…

In January, debut author Sean Thor Conroe published a novel called Fuccboi , about a young writer with bad skin who goes around calling various women “bae.” If you follow contemporary fiction, whether

A growing number of states are considering bills to expand research or access to the drugs. A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles on Monday, May 6, 2019. | Richard Vogel/AP Photo 03/23/2022 04:30 AM EDT Updated: 03/22/2022 06:53 PM EDT Turns out marijuana…

Page-Turner December 5, 2012 Half a century has passed since the Life World Library was launched, in 1961. Today, its volumes languish in Internet bookstores, begging for takers at less than a dollar. They are cheapened by their age, their association with the mass-market Time Life brand (“Mysteries…

Muy a menudo el propio lenguaje y sus palabras ya lo dicen todo. En español la palabra “raíces” ya lo define (Bienes Raices) , es un bien que está ahí y estará siempre ahí, en particular si hablamos d

I grow tired of “queer influencer activists.” You may or may not know the type. Their Instagram feeds are composed of infographics, screenshots of their own or (usually) other people’s tweets, sandwic

Reasons to Love New York New York celebrates the city’s timeless, peerless connection to movies. My Best Friend’s Wedding, 1997. Photo: Ronald Grant Archive/Alamy Stock Photo In 1933’s Only Yesterday, a suave decorator in evening clothes, played by Franklin Pangborn, is enjoying a painting alongside…

The Long View Richard Diebenkorn’s Woman in a Window, 1957.Photo courtesy of Richard Diebenkorn Foundation CALL YOUR BROTHER. Something’s happening.” Lisa, my oldest friend from the small town in Connecticut where we both grew up, has phoned as I’m heading out from my office in New York City’s…

The New Yorker Interview The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever. February 15, 2022 Illustration by Jules Julien; Source photograph by Kevin Mazur / Getty I first met Stevie Nicks in 2013, when I was about to turn seventeen. At the time, I was…

Meg Yates, better known as Meg Superstar Princess, hangs outside an Office magazine party last week. Photo: The Cobrasnake This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One morning in June, while I was puffing away on my…

Profiles Dearest Edith The inner and outer voyages of Edith Wharton. February 22, 1929 Photograph courtesy Charles Wesley Hearn / Beinecke Library, Yale The aristocratic Mrs. Edith Wharton was born Jones in a fashionable quarter of New York, arriving appropriately during the quarrel between masters…