Barry Blitt’s “Soft Landing”
For the cover of the May 26, 2025, issue, the artist Barry Blitt chose to depict President Donald J. Trump’s enthusiasm for any way that…
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For the cover of the May 26, 2025, issue, the artist Barry Blitt chose to depict President Donald J. Trump’s enthusiasm for any way that…
The Joke I tell that no one laughs at goes like this: I picked a pretty rough time to actually want to be alive; in retrospect, back when…
Morgan Wallen is a country singer, almost defiantly so, though he is also popular on a scale that seems to circumvent genre entirely. Each…
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Passengers flying into Newark Liberty International Airport this week faced jaw-dropping delays, with some incoming flights stuck waiting…
Kelli Baker’s story is one of persistence, self-discovery, and artistic authenticity. With a voice that cuts through the noise and lyrics…
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Abelard and Heloise, Vladimir and Véra, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria: to these historic his and hers, I would add Carl and Dolly.…
One of the year’s most talked-about new songs, from one of the planet’s most influential musicians, is not available on Spotify, or Apple…
Benny Scanlon, the protagonist of the new comedy “Overcompensating,” is the kind of boy mothers don’t know to warn their daughters about.…
The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each…
Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second…
Imagine that someone in a position of great political power created a hundred billion raffle tickets and made them available for public…
It’s 7:20 AM and I’m just sitting down to the computer. We successfully completed day 3 of our 5:30 AM-get-up-and-workout routine and I…
In the sun-drenched business district of Winter Park, Florida, Dominick Cicale cuts an imposing figure in his bespoke Italian suit as he…
The algorithm has been feeding me industrial-strength A.S.M.R.: short videos of computer-controlled lathes, in extreme closeup, doing…
Yesterday was a very rainy Monday. It also was the day David and I decided to put a new habit into practice. We are currently on day two…
Hello and happy Monday! How was your weekend? Celebratory? A little tough? A combination perhaps? Whatever the circumstances, I hope that…
The Boston Globe’s investigative Spotlight team has been reporting on wrongdoing for decades—before and after its stunning exposure, in…
This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I…
By now you already know that liking your daily SPF as important as applying it. (Derms, we’ve been listening!) The best sunscreen for oily…
Russia's ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechayev, on Friday laid wreaths at Soviet memorials in Berlin to mark the 80th anniversary of the…
The messages Donald Trump is sending about a proposal to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans aren’t just mixed; they’re actually…