Dear listeners,If you’re anything like me, you’ve already spent way too much of this summer in airports.* Flight delays are up, and the recent spate of severe weather hasn’t exactly helped. This...
Read moreShe’s rolling in the grass dressed in sunflower yellow, kissing a man about whom she’s passionately ambivalent (“Boyfriends and Girlfriends,” 1987). She’s strolling through the countryside in a fleecy blue sweater, having...
Read more“Men’s suits were better made in 1940 than they are now. I want to know the cut. I want to know where the tweed came from. I like those details.”On a California...
Read moreIt’s a matchup for the ages, up there with Ali vs. Frazier, the Hatfields vs. the McCoys and Athens vs. Sparta.Well, let’s not get carried away.But it is fair to say that...
Read moreENCOUNTERISM: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person, by Andy FieldIt has been shockingly easy, hasn’t it, to fall out of the habit of being with other humans. All it took was...
Read moreFirst announced at Google I/O 2023, Space Invaders: World Defense is now available for Android and iOS devices. The game is developed by Taito Corporation in collaboration with Google. At I/O 2023,...
Read moreIn 2019, Andrew Leland began writing a book about blindness, even as he was going steadily blind himself.Working as his vision deteriorated gave him an insider’s perspective — who better to write...
Read moreThe actors’ strike has hit the brakes on the hot pink convertible that is the “Barbie” film’s press tour.Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and other stars of Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming movie inspired by...
Read moreThings don’t go well when a teenage girl with mental superpowers ends up at a secret facility in this Max movie entirely devoid of suspense or character.
Read moreThis article includes spoilers for the fourth episode of “Secret Invasion.”At one point while on set for the latest Marvel TV show “Secret Invasion,” Ben Mendelsohn and Samuel L. Jackson broke into...
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