The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
John Phipps writes about France’s loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain.
The Weekend Essay
admin Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur
Becca Rothfeld on the films of Neil Breen, including, most recently, “Dire Duplicity,” which premièred in May, 2026, at the…
A Passage
Ledio Cakaj on a journey he undertook from France to England in 1999, hoping to gain asylum.
When Middle Age Comes Into Focus
E. Tammy Kim writes about receiving a diagnosis of presbyopia—Greek, but not poetic, for “old eye”—and about the experience of…
My Birthright
When you immigrate, Karan Mahajan writes, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why he can’t stop writing…
Forget Albums—Pop Stars Measure Their Careers in Eras Now
Since the earthshaking success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, artists from the Weeknd to Ariana Grande have tried to imbue…
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.
The Voice of Google
Claire Stapleton writes that she cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality, then lost faith in what Google was…
Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare
As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying, Jia Tolentino writes.
The Popularity Contests of “Love Island”
Most romantic reality TV would have us believe that dating is about getting married, or simply being chosen, Lillian Fishman…