admin The Voice of Google
Claire Stapleton writes that she cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality, then lost faith in what Google was…
How Worldy Is the World Cup?
With every tournament, the possibility of a genuine surprise is shrinking, Anthony Lane writes.
Trump’s Election-Fraud Bait and Switch
Ruth Marcus writes about President Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday, July 16th, about supposed threats to election security, as the…
A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Dan Chiasson writes on “Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments,” a posthumous collection by the poet, who died, in…
Peter Hujar’s Search for Secrets
Hilton Als reviews “Hujar:Contact,” at the Morgan Library. The photographer’s portraits bring certain truths to the surface.
Who Owns the Odyssey?
The director Christopher Nolan has been accused of “woke-ifying” Homer’s epic. But finding new resonance in ancient texts is part…
Mother Tongue
Judith Thurman on a translator whose vitally urgent renderings of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of…
Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art
Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and…
Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey”
Justin Chang writes that, in this adaptation of Homer’s epic, the director’s signature realism grounds, without dispelling, the drama’s emotional…
Trump’s War on Journalists
The recent subpoenas of Times reporters over an article about Air Force One make clear that the President is trying…