In conversation with Observer, the MacArthur fellow and bestselling novelist reflects on metaphor, class and truth. Courtesy the publisher; author photo by Giancarlo Valentine The world demands definition,…
Read more Ocean Vuong On Asking Questions Without AnswersAs real life gives us fewer places to meet, dating apps fill the gap – then quietly reshape how we experience attraction, rejection, and ourselves. The real win…
Read more Dating Apps Are Confidence Black Holes: The Costs of Swipe-Based RomanceJust before tragedy struck. William Woodward, Jr., with his wife, Ann, days before he died of gunshot wounds at his Oyster Bay Cove, Long Island, estate. The picture…
Read more The Socialite New York Never Forgave for a Crime That May Not Have HappenedToday’s lyrics are becoming darker in tone, simpler in form, and more centered on the isolated self. What does that say about the culture singing along? Popular music…
Read more How Pop Music Became Simpler, Darker, and More Self-CenteredInfluencers can make ideas visible, but they can also trap them inside social bubbles. Real change happens when an idea leaves the bubble and becomes part of everyday…
Read more The Influencer Silo: The Limits of Personality-Driven Social ChangeIn a world of reaction images, doomscrolling, and “brain rot,” memes have become one of the primary ways we process reality. But when symbolic shortcuts replace deeper thinking,…
Read more Meme-Brained: How Shallow Culture Creates Shallow UnderstandingA window within a window. Small and square, it opened automatically thanks to a simple handcrafted device. Known as a tee, it’s a feature of the mountain huts…
Read more Milano Cortina 2026: yoga, sunsets and medals: each to their own Golden MomentMike Etienne and D’Johé Kouadio in Dao by Alain Gomis. © 2026 – Les Films du Worso – Srab Films – Yennenga Productions – Nafi Films – Telecine…
Read more Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: Alain Gomis’s ‘Dao’NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. policy is often reported through announcements, personalities and regulatory skirmishes. Far less attention is paid to the economic mechanisms…
Read more Trump’s science and tech man lays out White House’s global AI strategyIn an a historic return to competitive skiing after years away, Vonn qualified for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. An ACL tear (Vonn’s third) wasn’t enough to…
Read more Lindsey Vonn’s Dog Died the Day After Her Devastating Olympics Crash“Art & Inspiration: Author & Artist in Conversation” will be featured at Newburyport Art, 65 Water St., Newburyport., on Saturday from 4 to 5 p.m. Join author Jane…
Read more TGIF: What’s up this weekend in Greater NewburyportActor Eric Dane announced in April of 2025 that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I’m fighting as…
Read more Eric Dane, Star of Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria, Dead at 53One of them was Carmen Bracho, 30, an engineer in Toronto who planned an entire trip to Vienna with her boyfriend for the Philharmonic Ball this January. “I…
Read more Gen Z Has Waltzed Right Into Vienna’s Fairy-Tale Balls“Once I stepped into my womanhood, I felt like the main character of my life,” Dylan Mulvaney tells me, while sipping her lemon drop. “So now that means…
Read more Dylan Mulvaney Is Finally a Broadway Leading Lady, Haters Be DamnedOpenAI has hired Instagram’s vice president of global partnerships, Charles Porch, to serve as the AI company’s first-ever vice president of global creative partnerships. The newly created position…
Read more Exclusive: OpenAI Has Poached Instagram’s Celebrity WhispererOver the next six years, Snowy served as the Mellon family’s live-in artist at their residences in Upperville, Virginia, Washington, DC, and New York City, as well as…
Read more Inside Bunny Mellon’s New York Home, Immortalized in WatercolorFans of Robert Duvall are mourning his passing on Sunday February 15 at age 95. The star of films including 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird (he played Boo…
Read more Robert Duvall’s Life in PhotosAs Tom Hagen, the trusted consigliere to the Corleone crime family in The Godfather saga, Robert Duvall did what he did better than any other actor of his…
Read more Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies At Age 95“It’s Monday morning quarterbacking,” Nanos said. “I do it all the time, so you can do that for me. I’ll take that hit.” And to a question about…
Read more At Nancy Guthrie’s Home, a Surreal Scene of Chaos and CamaraderieAnd I think you’ll be incredibly excited to know that the New Museum is also gifting downtown Manhattan with a new restaurant that is—I think I’ve mentioned this…
Read more It’s Fashion Week vs. an Art World Awakening in New York City
