Features 30 Years of Portishead’s ‘Dummy’ Portishead’s debut provided a wellspring of inspiration to unnumerable artists since its release three decades ago. Explore the history and lasting impact of this alluring classic. By Nick Zanca version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? In Wantlist Dummy Portishead…

In case you’ve been exploring the outer moons of Neptune and missed the news, Britpop icons and perennial bad boys Oasis have reformed and are set to embark on a massive, ridiculously hyped, and highly lucrative world tour in 2025. Here are a bunch of reasons why you won’t find me queuing up for…

It was inevitable that I would end up writing about Charli XCX’s Brat — without question not only the album of the year but the pop-culture event of the year. But the crazy thing is how the nature of this essay changed so dramatically several times in the course of just a few days, from fatigue and…

This is not Joselin Linder’s first time at the rodeo: She is a reporter for the New York Post, has written books about games, gaming, and gamification, and is the author of such humorous hybrids as The Stoned Family Robinson (like The Swiss Family Robinson, but with weed). But Linder has never…

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“Thérèse Dreaming” (1938) by the painter known as Balthus.Credit...Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 The Metropolitan Museum of Art will not remove a controversial painting by the French painter known as Balthus from public display. The painting, entitled “Thérèse Dreaming” (1938), depicts…

Inside Kate Bush's alternate universe 15 June 2022 Dorian LynskeyFeatures correspondent Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Why are the enigmatic star's mystical songs being constantly re-purposed? Because she is in her own unique, other world, writes Dorian Lynskey – and we all want to be there with her. "Why…

Columns On the eve of a new book chronicling his career, Steve Keene talks about his friend David Berman, his inspiration from punk, and why his paintings are like pizzas. June 14, 2022 Graphic by Marina Kozak; paintings courtesy of Steve Keene Indie bookstores; scuzzy rock bars; quirky coffee…

Interviews All Music Cinema TV Comic Books After Six Years, a Great Re-Awakening Jun 09, 2022 Web Exclusive Photography by Jenna Moore The new Shearwater album features an instrument that has no precedent in the annals of rock history: a singing refrigerator. “In the song ‘There Goes the Sun,’…

1 of 14 This small illustration, sketched in one of Charles Darwin’s notebooks, is commonly referred to now as his ‘Tree of Life’. Drawn around July 1837, after his return from his voyages on HMS Beagle, it’s seen as the first iteration of him visualising a theory of evolution by descent from a…

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Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. The butterfly’s wings are splayed at an unnatural angle, orange-and-black markings visible to full effect. A metal pin skewers it to the wall. Through thick display glass, I read the tiny, hand-drawn…

Interview “Bro, I’m the first to the studio and the last to leave,” says the Spanish singer, songwriter, and producer. May 18, 2022 Photos by Daniel Sannwald, treatment by Callum Abbott Rosalía’s MOTOMAMI has been out for just a month when I call her in late April, and she’s already back in a Miami…

In an age that favors—often demands—the constant reinvention of its pop stars, there is a reassuring familiarity to Florence Welch, front woman of Florence + the Machine. Here she is, a Saturday lunchtime in February, nearly 15 years after she crash-landed onto the music scene, still looking as…

My Ten The Florence + the Machine frontwoman reveals what kept her motivated while working on the band’s next album: dancers, “Dracula” and daffodils. By May 3, 2022 Florence Welch thought she would be happy when the pandemic brought live music to a temporary end. For the past 13 years, after every…

Mid-morning in New Orleans, and outside an Uptown coffee shop, Win Butler is talking of life in his adopted city – the basketball, brass bands, and the poisonous caterpillars of the buck moth that, in late spring, fall from the city’s trees on to unsuspecting passersby beneath. He surveys the mighty…

By now, Sharon Van Etten can’t quite remember how many times she watched The Sandlot over the pandemic with her five-year-old son. But what she does remember is this: During one particular viewing in 2020, she came up with the title of her forthcoming sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All…

Profile After more than a decade as an indie-rock fixture, and with her sixth album on the way, the singer-songwriter is resolute amid a world spiraling into chaos. Photography by Don Brodie April 11, 2022 Hovering in fight stance near a row of swinging heavy bags is Sharon Van Etten, working on her…

A Reporter at Large A family tragedy sheds light on a burgeoning mental-health emergency. April 4, 2022 When Trevor Matthews took his own life, a year ago, his parents were left trying to understand why there are so few therapeutic interventions for children with depression.Photograph by Sarah…

Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices. The third segment of the landmark scientific report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which could be the last comprehensive…

This summer has seen extreme temperatures across the globe, with the UK having the warmest June ever recorded (smashing the previous record by 0.9ºC) and extreme heat across the US, China and Europe, with the ongoing heatwave providing a nightmare vision of the future and wildfires resulting in the…

It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, naked beneath a thin white smock bearing the number…

For decades, the story of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment has gone like this: Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo assigned paid volunteers to be either inmates or guards in a simulated prison in the basement of the school‘s psychology building. Very quickly, the guards became cruel, and the…

The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature. The study took paid participants and assigned them to be “inmates” or “guards” in a mock prison at Stanford University. Soon after the…

Maria Konnikova June 12, 2015 A scene from “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” a new movie inspired by the famous but widely misunderstood study.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY SPENCER SHWETZ/SUNDANCE INSTITUTE On the morning of August 17, 1971, nine young men in the Palo Alto area received visits from local…

A Reporter at Large March 29, 2010 Elephants have their protectors in Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, where poachers preyed on elephants.Photograph by Frans Lanting In the early nineteen-seventies, Mark and Delia Owens, two graduate students in biology at the University of Georgia, were seized…

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According to my closest friends and various suspect Internet sources, turning 29 on January 29, 2017 marked my golden birthday. At the time, I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I had a gut feeling about my 30th year: it was going to be special; it was going to be good. It was a total disaster. It…

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In February 2018, New York Magazine published “Worst Roommate Ever,” which chronicles the ultimate Craigslist nightmare. The article, by William Brennan, is now the basis of a Netflix anthology docuseries. If you’re interested in reading similar stories, sign up for Reread: New York Hustlers, a…

In 2017, Anna Sorokin was still conning her way through elite circles—bilking banks, hotels, and associates for more than $200,000—in her alleged quest to build a social club. But Sorokin—who was calling herself Anna Delvey at the time—was not just a serial hustler. She was also a millennial. So…

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Times Insider How a doctor-turned-journalist worked with a veteran audio reporter to create a podcast about a mysterious letter that riveted Britain. Brian Reed, left, and Hamza Syed reporting in Birmingham, England, for a new podcast, which investigates a mysterious letter that riveted…

Before meeting the investigative journalists behind the New York Times podcast The Trojan Horse Affair, I had dinner with some friends. “Trojan Horse?” asked one. “Wasn’t that the thing about the Islamist plot in schools?” He was partly right. In late 2013 (the same year as the horrific murder of…

The R.E.M. singer-songwriter is parting with works from his collection of Southern artists — but their inspiration lingers on. Michael Stipe, musician, artist and collector, at home in Athens, Ga., with his feet on a blue fox he made in 2008, bronze with powdercoat. He has had a long career as a…

It’s August 1995, and R.E.M. is in a state of collapse. Drummer Bill Berry is in the hospital undergoing brain surgery to treat two aneurysms on the right side of his brain (one of which ruptured while he was performing on stage), bassist Mike Mills is undergoing emergency abdominal surgery, and…