Kelly Clarkson and the Bird That Divided Brooklyn The singer’s claim that she got the Pretty Woman treatment in a ritzy New York toy store has sparked a frenzy of heated opinions
DSA Do’s And Don’ts A comedian’s modest proposals for the Democratic Socialists of America
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Nothing
Founded in 2020, London-headquartered Nothing is one of the only tech companies I find to be doing exciting things in the dismal space…
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Jolt
What a shiny and privileged life Ted Scheiman seemed to lead: a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale, he seemed destined to be another…
Murder, They Wrote The strange sinking of a luxury ocean liner! A train hijacking en route to London! Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries…
Mother Dearest Emmanuel Carrère’s Prix Médicis–winning Kolkhoz, about his mother Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, is less a reconciliation than a sly takedown
Peak Television Scott Meslow’s A Place Both Wonderful and Strange goes inside the making of David Lynch’s surrealist drama, which counted Queen Elizabeth and Mikhail Gorbachev among its fans
“The Book Really Wanted to Sing All Along” The Metropolitan Opera presents the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo, an operatic adaptation of the 2017 novel by George Saunders
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