Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. If you live in the city,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1986, Gilda Radner, one of “Saturday Night Live” ’s original Not Ready for Prime Time Players, was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, at the age of forty. She underwent a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their lot. Time-honored rituals are observed. Fancy outfits…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The best filmmakers, looking to the past, see the future. The Holocaust and the Nazi menace to Europe have been filmmakers’ mainstays for decades, and sometimes the effort (whether more or…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian singer who performs as the Weeknd, is perhaps his generation’s most committed self-mythologist. Early in his career, he obscured his identity while his moody, debased mixtapes became…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For club kids, having a spiritual awakening on the dance floor is a rite of passage. Afterward, you’ll spend a lifetime chasing the high. Music-induced, out-of-body rapture has been the foundation…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Polish word pestka has roughly the same meaning in English as the word “pip,” meaning seed, or stone, as in stone fruit. But it is also used to mean “easy”—something…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 10, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’d like to think that Nikki Giovanni would have forgiven me for misleading the seemingly oblivious white proprietor of a small bookshop in the Northeast two years ago. There were no…