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A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Kids
In theory, buying gifts for children is a snap. If they’re old enough to talk, but not old enough to ignore you completely, they will likely tell you what...
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
“Thank God it’s Friday.” “It’s hot outside.” “How’s it goin’?” “Can you believe this rain?” Malinowski described such utterances as forms of “phatic” communication. This somewhat awkward term, which...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a music-loving family. His...
Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks
Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home. Source link
Why Can’t A.I. Manage My E-Mails?
Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox. Source link
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half...
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
On certain days, I’d cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my high school—then called the...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
The squishier centrist side has no such certainties. Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary...
The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical pads made of hard rubber—in between cars on some...
