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“Mountainhead” Channels the Absurdity of the Tech Bro
Four tech billionaires walk into a mansion. It sounds like the setup for a punch line, but it also forms nearly the entire conceit behind “Mountainhead,” a savagely entertaining...
What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman.In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story...
How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic
The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which...
How Ink Cartridges Affect Your Print Quality
As a young entrepreneur, you know that the quality of your prints directly impacts how professional your business appears. Whether you’re printing quotes, marketing materials, or internal documents, the...
David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”
There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue...
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
Late on a Sunday night in June of 2023, a woman named Carlishia Hood and her fourteen-year-old son, an honor student, pulled into Maxwell Street Express, a fast-food joint...
Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain
This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, and front man, has engaged...
Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity
Last year, on the occasion of Taschen’s reissue of “Workers” (originally published in 1993), I had the chance to interview Salgado over video chat. He was in Paris, sitting...
10 Advantages of Replacing the Roof of Your Rental Properties
It is essential to maintain the property if you have a single-family home or a townhouse that you rent to tenants. Even if you’re not living under that roof,...
