Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My childhood Barbies were always in trouble. I was constantly giving them diagnoses of rare diseases, performing risky surgeries to cure them, or else kidnapping them—jamming them into the deepest reaches…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish musician Sinéad O’Connor died, on Wednesday, at the age of fifty-six, without having received adequate apologies from this society we inhabit, which is often fuelled by an obsession with…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In a photograph that appeared on the cover of Life’s July 28, 1967, issue, a twelve-year-old boy named Joey Bass, Jr., lies contorted in the middle of a street in Newark,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and morality as they were applied—namely, against the downtrodden,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We live in a moment of so many different mediums—Op-Docs, TikToks, Discord chats—and, as a result, we occasionally experience a pleasure approaching bliss when someone lines up one of those forms…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Wednesday, the Irish singer and songwriter Sinéad O’Connor was found dead in a private home in London. She was fifty-six. O’Connor’s discography—she released ten studio albums, beginning in 1987—is so…
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.…