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With Novak Djokovic, It Is Always a Struggle

It was a struggle. For Novak Djokovic, it is always a struggle. We know it is because he says it is. “I’m trying...

Isabel Allende’s Vision of History

Isabel Allende recalls it as the day when Santiago went silent. On the morning of September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende rushed to La...

All the Things I Could Do if I Had Backup Singers

Listen to my theme song performed in three-part harmony instead of singing it softly to myself, like some loser who’s written her own...

It Was Only an Art-Envy Dream

A cartoonist’s nocturnal fantasy about stumbling across the greatest comic ever. Source link

Seltzer Madness!

Have we reached the peak of fizzy alcoholic beverage options, or is there room for Prilosec Hard Seltzer, or Hard Seltzer (Taylor’s Version)? Source...

New York’s Newest Speakeasy, Minus the Secrecy and the Booze

The concept of the speakeasy has had considerable staying power, but why? We live in times of abundant booze, increasingly legal drugs, and...

Old Men and Sea

Shouts & Murmurs by Ian Frazier: Using bait suggested by an algorithm, the old man hooks the huge fish. Other old men get...

A Master Class with David Grann

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter.David Grann is...

Would Steven Soderbergh Kill Baby Facebook?

At the Brandy Library, in Tribeca, a man in suspenders led Steven Soderbergh down a spiral staircase, into an amber-lit V.I.P. lounge. Soderbergh,...

How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern

While Wilson was contemplating the Greeks sickening in their camp, and the Trojans caged behind their city walls, the plague of Covid forced...

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