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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off…
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?
Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
In a new story collection, the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a discourse that can lean toward self-seriousness.
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce
With “Food Is a Feeling,” the cookbook author joins a lineage of writers who have explored the appetites of the newly unmarried.
The Art of American Sophistication
How striving, self-invention, and charm became America’s national style.
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
In Grandmaster Flash’s new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how hip-hop began.
Helen, Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners.
The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely,…
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a…
A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession
The liberal-arts college Oberlin has barely won any football games in the past few years. Still, one senior argued, the school and its…
How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
In his photographs, the skateboarder Jerry Hsu captures Los Angeles’s manic extremes, with images of overturned cars, collisions, and a…
The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind…
The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide.
The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means”
“By Any Means,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in…
Have We Destroyed Childhood?
Experts say that childhood is suffering. They just can’t agree on the cause.
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma
Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person.
Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe
Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa.
In “Adults,” Gen Z Gets the Hangout Sitcom It Deserves
The married creators of “Adults,” Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, seem well aware of the lineage of their series. (At one point, a…
Netflix plans to close two gaming studios, including one in Hollywood
Netflix said it is in the process of closing two of its gaming studios, as the division is making another round of organizational changes.…
Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?
This summary does an injustice to the originality and the sophistication of Tregenza’s way with narrative form. The tale unfolds in many…
Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art”
For the cover of the August 10, 2026, issue, the painter and graphic novelist Eric Drooker depicted the Guggenheim Museum as a cool…