This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. On the San Juan Islands off northwest Washington State, land meets sea along rocky outcrops, and views stretch to Canada. Weather and water command the field, and the pace of life bends to meet them. Existence there is one of … Read more
In ‘Deli Boys,’ Two Actors Find Dream Roles Playing No One’s Hero
“What I’m all about,” he said, “is saving the world from bad sound.” Introduced in 1948, vinyl LPs seemed destined for extinction by the early 2000s, if not before, as the music industry went digital. But over the last decade or so, the format has been reborn, embraced by fans as a physical totem in … Read more
The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art, photographs and memos. They are studded with the celebrated names — E.B. White, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Rachel Carson — that filled this most mythologized of magazines, and helped … Read more
Kid Cosmo’s head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film “The Electric State” (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and shape of an exercise ball, propped atop an incongruously spindly frame. Cute? Yes. Mechanically feasible? Not really. Cosmo’s character was … Read more
It seemed obvious after the first couple of hours of volleying frantic choreography instructions with my pal that Split Fiction will go down as one of the most beloved co-op games of this generation. There are so many moments in this split-screen adventure to savor with a companion, so many spectacles that make you pick … Read more
When Samaiya Mushtaq was growing up, she imagined marrying a kind Muslim man, and at 21, she did. But while studying to become a psychiatrist in medical school, she realized her husband couldn’t meet her emotional needs — something she deeply craved. Despite the shame she felt, she got a divorce. In this episode, Mushtaq … Read more
When Michael Visontay’s mother died in 2020, he came upon a vast cache of his family’s papers. These held aspects of family history he already knew — such as the deportation of his father, Ivan, from Hungary to Auschwitz as a teenager, and the death of Ivan’s mother there — but also plenty of surprises, … Read more
Jazz has experienced a meaningful resurgence in popularity over the past 15 years or so, especially among younger listeners. What’s driving that? You could make the case that there is a particular hunger, now that so much of life is lived in the digital cloud, for the messy and untamed energy of jazz, and for … Read more
“His speech started late. I guess they were waiting for that last coat of shellac to dry on his face.” — JIMMY KIMMEL “Members of the Trump family were there: Eric was there, Lara, Don Jr., Jared, Ivanka, even Melania showed up. So Democrats weren’t the only people who hate him there.” — JIMMY KIMMEL … Read more