The Strange Power of the Dance-Floor Novel
A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music, Robert Rubsam writes.
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admin The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about the proliferation of A.I.-generated images of food, and what they reflect about the history of food…
The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires
Élite crews of firefighters in Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and other Western states parachute into remote areas, work to contain dangerous…
“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows
This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a panorama…
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward, Dorothy Wickenden writes.
Seven Steps to Financial Success, According to a Guy Who Won a Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against the Circus
Graeme Carey imagines financial advice delivered by a cryptocurrency bro who parlayed his injury at the hands of a circus…
Was “Defund the Police” Crazy?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about reckoning with the “woke” years.
George W. Bush’s Code of Silence
The former President lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics, Jacob Weisberg…
What Happened in Minneapolis
Operation Metro Surge was billed by the Trump Administration as the largest Department of Homeland Security undertaking ever. As ICE…
“The Disappearers” Stages the Pain and Pleasure of Jamaican Gay Life
Katy Waldman on a new novel by the Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, which follows a group of gay men…