The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews Annie Jacobsen’s novel “Biological War,” and asks what we miss when we try to predict the future.
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Following the news that LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, Louisa Thomas writes about the basketball star’s N.B.A.…
The Golden Age of the American Idiot
The Critics at Large podcast, featuring Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz, talks about a new game show featuring…
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and…
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
Katy Waldman writes about Kent Nishimura’s photographs, which capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.
The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex”
Justin Chang reviews Gregg Araki’s comedy about a B.D.S.M. relationship between a provocative artist, played by Olivia Wilde, and her…
Should We Do More to Fight Lookism?
Joshua Rothman considers lookism—discrimination against people who are unattractive—and whether we should see it like other forms of discrimination, such…
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
Jasper Craven considers how much of former Senate candidate Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what…
One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail
Charles Bethea reports on Steve Eimers, otherwise known as @TheGuardrailGuy, whose daughter Hannah died in 2016, when she hit a…
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system. Jessica Winter reports.