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FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF
[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. -The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022.
The Good Denis
When—after I'd long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you realize, didn't mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have happened.
TERMS OF AGGRIEVEMENT
The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders-and himself.
I SPY
The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?
DISPOSSESSED
\"Manahatta\" and \"Life & Times of Michael K.\"
GRAY AREAS
\"The Zone of Interest\" and \"Anselm.\"
LAUGH LINES
The funny thing about comedy.
WHAT MAKES A MURDER?
How a draconian legal doctrine imprisons people for killings they didn't commit.
TOKYO STORY
Greenpoint's upscale portal to Japan.
SLEEPER CELLS
To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.
151 Minutes With ...Norman Finkelstein
A tirelessly cantankerous advocate for Palestinian freedom takes a rare turn in the limelight.
And Still They Rise
How a community - and a legacy - of black playwrights and theater-makers has transformed the american stage
Can I Still Be a Patriot?
It used to be so simple to proclaim love for your country. Now it takes some work.
You're Glowing
Ilana Harris-Babou'’s impish take on wellness culture.
GOINGS ON: NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 5, 2023
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
On November 6th, Donald Trump courtroom, where he had testified in a civil trial alleging that he and others in the Trump Organization had committed fraud, and gave himself a great review. \"I think it went very well,\" he told reporters. \"If you were there, and you listened, you'd see what a scam this is.\" He meant that the case was a scam and not that his company was. \"Everybody saw what happened today,\" he went on.
incoming teju cole
The night before everything came to an end, Ms. Prosper finally agreed to sing for us.
FRATERNAL ECLIPSE
The strange case of Israel Joshua Singer.
SONGS OF HERSELF
“Hell's Kitchen,” at the Public, and The Gardens of Anuncia,” at Lincoln Center.
HERE COMES TROUBLE
“Napoleon” and Monster.”
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS: INTERIORS
Onscreen and onstage, Sandra Hiller probes her characters with unusual depth.
THE AFTERMATH
Kristin Kinkel, the sister of a school shooter, is still reckoning with her brother’ crimes.
SHOUTS & MURMURS: THINGS I'VE HEARD MYSELF SAY ALOUD TO MY KIDS
I just told everyone to keep their bodies to themselves in the car, and then you put your feet on the back of your brother's head, and we see you're on your phone, which we repeatedly asked you to leave at home, and so now there's going to have to be a big consequence, and now a chasm has opened between my consciousness and the words emerging from my mouth, and I hear a cascade of scolding clichés rush forth in a frictionless flow, as if I'm an A.I. chatbot with the prompt \"Lecture my kids in a style that they will completely ignore and will cause me deep sadness,\" because I don't know where all this boilerplate hectoring comes from, but the reason we keep our bodies to ourselves is that we treat our bodies and other people's bodies with respect, and if you keep doing that we're going to tell Nana how you behaved.
STAR CROSSED
The first rule of the celebrity couple: It always involves more than two people.
THE CHOSEN CHIP
How Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution.
Annals of Hollywood – The Man Behind the Nose
How Kazu Hiro transformed Bradley Cooper.
Shades of stardom
Sandra Hüller is in two riveting films this awards season, the moral thriller Anatomy of a Fall and the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. The German actor isn't after the spotlight-but she may not have a choice
The Frenchie Revolution
Money, murder, fur. Welcome to the war over America's most popular dog
The Ascendant
Jesmyn Ward, double national book award winner and best-selling author, returns to fiction with the haunting, beautiful Let Us Descend
Greta Gerwig – The Great
With Barbie, Greta Gerwig injected billions into the box office and joy back into Hollywood. If she has her way and there's every reason to think she will-she'll be doing the same thing for the next 40 years