Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The months-long publicity blitz and box-office triumph of “Barbie”—which earned a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on its opening weekend, giving the director Greta Gerwig and the nascent Mattel Films the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story About three years ago, I came across a YouTube video of a band I hadn’t heard of before. My ignorance wasn’t totally surprising: as a mom in my mid-forties, I’m hardly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Leaving the theatre after seeing “Oppenheimer,” I was tempted to call it a movie-length Wikipedia article. But, after a look online, I realized I was giving Wikipedia too little credit—or Christopher…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Elon Musk loves the letter “X.” He named his first company X.com. He named one of his kids X. He renamed Twitter X. Kill the birds! But why? “X” is geeky.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The film follows the perilous journey that sea turtles make to lay their eggs on their ancestral land on a beach in Kenya. The shoreline where a green sea turtle hatches…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The late Daniel Ellsberg, in his book “The Doomsday Machine,” drew attention to a curious conversation that took place between Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1942, on…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story News cycles, by nature, tend to document crises as discrete events. Suffusive emergencies—like the climate crisis—are captured mostly in the accelerating pace and frequency of such coverage. The increasing regularity of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1992, when she released “Dry,” her début album, PJ Harvey has made complex music that channels a primal, earthly energy. For me, her work has always conjured images of the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Waves Only Get Real When They Break,” by Colin Farish (piano), Jaron Lanier (guzheng), and Jhaffur Khan (flute). It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy…