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Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep
Sleep is orchestrated by two systems. The first is the so-called biological clock, which runs the body on a roughly twenty-four-hour cycle…
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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher
Land has always been a controversial figure, but not for the same reasons he is now. In the nineties, at Warwick, he led the Cybernetic…
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Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the…
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Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master
Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until…
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Bistrot Ha Is the Right Kind of Restaurant Evolution
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened…
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“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object…
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Losing Faith in Atheism
If I was still in search of beliefs, many atheists would object, I hadn’t really gotten over my religious upbringing. A good atheist deals…
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A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me…
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“Crime 101” Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to…
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Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend
Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission.…
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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan…
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A Terrifying Scam and the System That Made It Possible
Burch tracks these cases, and has conducted her own research on plaintiffs’ experiences. Her findings are sobering: plaintiffs almost…
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The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that…
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What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. Source link
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“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one…
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the…
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Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link
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“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are…
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What Do We Want from a Protest Song?
He is also sitting in front of a screen. “Am I the only one willin’ to bleed / Or take a bullet for bein’ free / Screamin’ ‘What the…
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A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs
The project evolved out of an informal recording session. In the summer of 2025, the Copelands were offered two free days in a studio in…
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“My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical
Most of the movie takes place in the span of a single day, and two clocks, political and personal, seem to be ticking out of synch,…
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The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift
In what feels like a vestige from a more collaborative era, the Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company is the product of a…