Style

Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
One year ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, made a bold prediction: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and...
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
For the longest time, I kept myself from joining TikTok. Social media, I figured, was already kind of a problem for me. I was heavily hooked on Instagram, reaching...
Acquisitions Are How We Scale Real Impact
I run Hawke Media with a simple goal: be the easiest, most effective marketing partner for people who need real results. That mission shapes every choice I make. It’s...
What to Do on New Year’s Eve
Few harbingers are more promising than the Swedish singer and producer Robyn. A sonic palate cleanser, she always seems to appear when we need her most. Her 1995 début,...
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
Don’t we need another one of those today? Some brave doula to help the world-to-come through the birth canal and to offer it an ethical path? I keep wondering:...
What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief. Her mother is sliding into late-stage dementia, and Ash...
The Best Small Touches to Make Your Coffee Corner Welcoming
A coffee corner isn’t just about the machine and the mug—it’s about creating a little ritual space where mornings feel calmer and afternoons more relaxed. With a few small,...
“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style
Paper cuts are the worst. In “No Other Choice,” a new comic thriller from the South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a longtime employee at a...
“Waiting to Exhale,” Thirty Years On
Forest Whitaker’s “Waiting to Exhale” is perhaps the quintessential “chick flick”—and an ideal case study for all that the cinematic subgenre can do. The “chick flick” often concerns heroines...
“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic rage amid brazen...
Is the Dictionary Done For?
He also introduces us to terms likely to be new to many readers: “sportocrat,” “on fleek,” “vajazzle,” and the German word Backpfeifengesicht, which is defined as “a face that...