‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’
Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, is a Salvadoran street gang, but it was born in the US about forty years ago. Salvadorans had been coming...
The Writer Apart
I want to say everything—that is the purpose of this book. —Thomas Mann,Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man On August 4, 1914, German troops invaded neutral Belgium,...
His Own Worst Enemy
If ever an artist needed a degree of protection against his public, surely it is Vincent van Gogh. Reproductions of his most emblematic paintings, especially the...
Masterpieces Unmediated
In his diary for May 6, 1997, the English essayist and playwright Alan Bennett—a trustee of the National Gallery, London, and an enthusiast of old master...
‘And You Give Yourself Away’
Arthur O’Leary was the scion of a high-born Irish Catholic family in County Cork who, in 1773, ran into trouble with a local English magistrate, Abraham...
From The History of Photography (1993)
I. First takers, first makers.The first sip of intelligencesplits the diapered sky, already crackledwith the losses that events are. At the old treehouse one is cloggedwith...
We tested the hottest new trend in sex toys: Warm-up vibrators
Just when pandemic-induced skin hunger seemed to be reaching a boiling point, the sextech industry has swept in with a new innovation to try to help...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Brags She Read All 14 Pages of the Green New Deal
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—the QAnon-loving bigot who ranks as possibly the furthest-right member of Congress—is a very slow reader, apparently. Read more… Source : Marjorie...
A Chatbot Is Mysteriously Sending Droves of People to Listen to Grimes and Stevie Wonder
When did we find ourselves on a musical hamster wheel? Slowly, over years, with every daily Spotify playlist, my ever-shortening menu of pellets features five artists...
