The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far
The Internet really ought to have killed cookbooks. Recipes—tidy, self-contained packets of information that for centuries were individually swapped and shared, indexed and catalogued—are ideally suited for digital transmission. As they migrated online, liberated from the printed and bound, multiplying giddily, the thousand-recipe doorstops and easy-weeknight omnibus editions that had, for so long, stood in…
Going Home with Wendell Berry
Two and a half years ago, feeling existentially adrift about the future of the planet, I sent a letter to Wendell Berry, hoping he might have answers. Berry has published more than eighty books of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism, but he’s perhaps best known for “The Unsettling of America,” a book-length polemic, from 1977,…
How the Stress of Separation and Detention Changes the Lives of Children
Click:Everydrops The horrific accounts of the conditions under which immigrant children are being held has focussed outrage and attention on the Trump Administration’s actions and agenda. But any future reversal of policy will do little to help kids who have already been detained—many of them after being separated from a parent or other relative. The…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Breaking up Homeland Security
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Shortly after her trip to the border, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined David Remnick to talk about what she saw in the migrant-detention facilities she visited and why she thinks the Department of Homeland Security needs to be broken up. And Ocasio-Cortez weighs in on whether Joe Biden is qualified to…
Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, and the N.B.A. Kaleidoscope
The era of N.B.A. superstars being empowered to choose the teams that they play for with free agency began when Oscar Robertson’s antitrust lawsuit, initiated in 1970, was settled in 1976. The era of superstars also functioning as their own team builders began when LeBron James, then of the Cleveland Cavaliers, staged a live television…
Martina Navratilova on Megan Rapinoe and the Trajectory of Gay Women in Sports
Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the champion U.S. women’s soccer team, is confidently and casually everyone’s current favorite athlete, leader, and lesbian. As I watched her take the podium at the ticker-tape parade in New York on Wednesday, her gestures and posture unapologetically what some of us watching would classify as dykey (others may say,…
A Father, a Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census
At around half past nine on the last day of September, Stephanie Hofeller was parked at a Speedway in Kentucky, where she lives, when she got a strange sense that she should Google her father, whom she hadn’t seen in more than four years. One of the first results that popped up was an obituary…
Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, and the N.B.A. Kaleidoscope
The era of N.B.A. superstars being empowered to choose the teams that they play for with free agency began when Oscar Robertson’s antitrust lawsuit, initiated in 1970, was settled in 1976. The era of superstars also functioning as their own team builders began when LeBron James, then of the Cleveland Cavaliers, staged a live television…
Trump’s Very Big, Very Important White House Social-Media Summit
Our country has never been perfect, but most of us can remember a simpler time, just a few years ago, when we more or less knew how to talk to each other, how to convey basic information, how to acquire simple facts about the world. Then came social media. Now every video might be a…
The New Space Race: NASA, China, and Jeff Bezos
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11, the NASA mission that first put men on the moon. In the decades since Apollo 11, the American space program has atrophied. No manned American space mission has left low Earth orbit since 1972. But recent developments in the space…