3+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (1768+ words) The writer and artist’s 1972 installation “Terminal Piece” shows us the failure of language in the face of violence. Rachel Cusk writes. The physicality of the art work is also its proximity to violence. Language, being a product of rationality, lacks…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1525+ words) Katy Waldman writes on a prize-winning story by Jamir Nazir, published in Granta, suspected of being A.I.-generated, and what the public’s response indicates about contemporary literary culture. In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (45+ words) For more covers by Barry Blitt, see below: Find Barry Blitt’s covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store. Play Catalogues, our new daily game, and bring order to the chaos. A Marilyn Monroe-J.F.K. mystery. When Ebola…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (51+ words) Zachary Fine reviews a Lewis retrospective at the Peabody Essex Museum of Art, discussing how Lewis changed nineteenth-century sculpture with works like “Columbus” and “Forever Free.” Play Catalogues, our new daily game, and bring order to the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1125+ words) When Sherri Hannan was twenty-seven, she adopted her first dog, a Labrador mix named Julio. She’d grown up with cats, and for many years dogs frightened her. “I thought they were scary and gross,” she told me. But when her…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (463+ words) Oops! All Trauma: A totally unthemed reading series across all genres, at which fiction writers, poets, and essayists all happen to read the most depressing shit you have ever heard in your life. Sorry about your cousin! Schadenfreude: Every piece…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (113+ words) Inner-arm flesh,crepe bat wings.Train for night flights. In the bath,discover a warm atollof flesh on the belly.Cup gently in your handslike raw tortilla dough.Admire its satin finish.Give thanks. One day you will wakeastonished as…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1436+ words) A reporter spent a year using more than 100 A.I.-powered products, from a toothbrush to a car, and found that it isn’t a one-size-fits-all technology. “I, Joanna Stern, do solemnly swear to live with the machines for the next 365 days.” Thus…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1468+ words) Inkoo Kang on shows such as “Euphoria” and “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” which are wildly different but equally unrealistic about sex work. In the new Apple TV dramedy “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” a divorced mother in the midst of an increasingly…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1408+ words) In his second dispatch from the film festival, Justin Chang considers premières from Marine Atlan, Jordan Firstman, and Cristian Mungiu that explore adolescent identity and child welfare. Writing last week from the seventy-ninth Cannes Film Festival, I noted that some…...