For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World
The archetypal telephone, the Model 500, designed by Henry Dreyfuss, had a clunking rotary dial, a heavy base, and a coiled cord that connected to a curved handset. It had, surprisingly, some mobility: you could hold the base of the phone in one hand, ideally with your middle and ring fingers, while walking around a…
Ivanka Comes Out Against Busing: “I Have Never Taken a Bus In My Life—They’re Gross”
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Ivanka Trump came out strongly against busing on Monday, telling reporters, “I have never taken a bus in my life—they’re gross.” Trump said she was reluctant to wade into the busing controversy, but asserted, “The idea of getting on a bus, where there are a lot of other people and you have…
Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball
After Andre Iguodala entered the N.B.A., fifteen years ago, he quickly became known as an athletic scorer, playing first for the Sixers and then for the Nuggets. He made the All-Star team in 2012, and seemed destined to have a perfectly successful but championship-free career. And then, in 2013, he joined the Golden State Warriors…
Coming Back to Ackee and Salt Fish, Jamaica’s National Dish
The first big thing about ackee is that it’s naturally bland. The second thing is that it can kill you. The fruit, native to West Africa, looks like a cross between a bell pepper and a peach dunked in bright-pink paint; as it ripens, its outer layer peels open at the bottom, revealing dark, grape-like…
Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads John L’Heureux
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Kirstin Valdez Quade joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Long Black Line,” by John L’Heureux, from a 2018 issue of the magazine. Quade is the author of the story collection “Night at the Fiestas,” which won the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and a “5…
Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty
The poor used to matter—at least as far as political rhetoric goes. About half a century ago, Lyndon Johnson launched a war not on the struggles of the American middle class but on poverty—which had been revived as a major issue by activists and public intellectuals like the socialist Michael Harrington. In 1963, Dwight MacDonald…
Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall
A day or two after the Stonewall Riots, in June, 1969, Virginia Apuzzo, a twenty-eight-year-old nun and college lecturer, went down to Sheridan Square looking to shed her shame. The shame had been with her since she was ten and proposed to a girl who was perhaps a year older, a neighbor in an apartment…
A Photographer’s Ode to the Women of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles is synonymous with spectacle. The first was a six-day-long extravaganza (Baby whales! Fireworks! The première of Molière’s “Tartuffe”!) hosted by Louis XIV, in 1664. Times change, and spectacles with them. In the twenty-first century, the palace embarked on an ambitious series of contemporary art exhibitions. The first was in 2008, when…
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The Enduring Urgency of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” at Thirty
Spike Lee’s third feature, “Do the Right Thing,” returns to movie theatres this weekend in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its release. Lee dedicated the movie, in the end credits, to the families of Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Griffith, Arthur Miller, Edmund Perry, Yvonne Smallwood, and Michael Stewart—six black people, five of whom were killed…