Adam Ondra e Chaehyun Seo le stelle di Chamonix
Sabato scorso a Chamonix (Francia) la seconda tappa della Coppa del Mondo Lead è stata vinta dalla 15enne Chaehyun Seo e da Adam Ondra. Venerdì la la quarta e penultima tappa della Coppa del Mondo Speed è stata vinta da YiLing Song e Alfian Muhammad. È difficile dire quale sia la più grande novità che…
Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You
There’s a ton of research that suggests binge-watching is bad for you. I’m not a doctor, but I got a physical from one once, which qualifies me to reject the prevailing medical research. If you’re wondering whether you should slow down on the screen time, here are reasons why binge-watching could benefit you. You’ll learn…
“Kochland” Examines the Koch Brothers’ Early, Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial
If there is any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the United States, it ought to be put to rest by the publication of “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” by the business reporter Christopher Leonard. This seven-hundred-and-four-page tome doesn’t break…
Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracies and the Mysterious Deaths of the Rich and Ruined
On the evening of November 5, 1991, a Spanish fisherman spotted the body of Robert Maxwell, a controversial British press baron, floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. The crew of Maxwell’s luxury motor yacht had been searching for him all day, after he had vanished that morning with no explanation. Almost immediately,…
Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return
When I returned to my home town of New Orleans for a second try at making a full-time life there, it was winter, 2011, six years post-Water. I find it impossible now, in the retelling, to know exactly how I decided to move back. I had been living in New York City, running a global…
The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”
Click:Custom orders The mainspring of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” an adaptation of the three-book series (published between 1981 and 1991) of classic macabre and gory tales gleefully retold by Alvin Schwartz, is, oddly, nearly the same as the one that rebooted “Ghostbusters,” in 2016: the ghost of a cruelly abused woman, locked…
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Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, United in Soul
Toni Morrison was such an exceptional talent, and seemed to float so high above the fray, that it’s easy to forget she was a product of her time. But she was profoundly influenced by the work of contemporary musicians. She wanted her writing to emulate, she told the scholar Paul Gilroy, “all of the intricacy,…
The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island”
In the sixth episode of the final season of “Orange Is the New Black,” the steely prison warden Natalie Figueroa settles down, after a long day at work in a corrupt immigrant-detention center, to watch the U.K.’s most popular dating show, “Love Island.” “I want the hot, glistening bodies to zap away my brain and…
Sunday Reading: The Democratic Presidential Front-Runners
This summer, more than twenty Democratic Presidential candidates have assembled to participate in a series of debates and present their proposals on everything from climate change to Medicare for All. This week, as the field begins to narrow, we’ve compiled a selection of pieces on several of the front-runners currently stumping around the nation and…