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“Chronovisor” makes literacy the key to another world
When people talk about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, no one ever seems to discuss what it would’ve been like from Christ’s point of view. Perhaps that’s because, if we stop clinging to the hope that it was all for…
The global appeal of the pastry dog
For five years, Sister Schubert’s fans asked, begged and eventually petitioned for the return of a frozen food composed of two things: a small smoked sausage and a soft Parker House roll. The company had discontinued its Sausage Wrap Rolls…
Measles death undercuts RFK Jr.’s doubts
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has acknowledged that measles caused the death of a Pennsylvania infant, days after reports revealed that he asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remove two deaths in the state from its…
“Idiocracy” is still a worthless artifact 20 years later
Mike Judge has always had a soft spot for dimwits. Beavis and Butt-head might leave chaos and destruction in their muttering, giggling wake, but they rarely suffer lasting harm themselves. In another writer’s hands, the soft-handed seat-fillers of his slacker…
Stuffing deserves a life beyond Thanksgiving
Back when Twitter was still the kind of place where a stray observation could become communal property by lunchtime — before the app hardened quite so completely into a highly polarized, hyper-monetized digital town square populated by tech founders and…
At the US Open, tennis itself fights for the attention
The U.S. Open has become one of New York’s hottest places to see and be seen. But the tennis players and tennis fans would occasionally like people to watch the tennis. Players at this year’s tournament have complained about an…
My library card has saved me $1,330 — and I want more
In June, I became briefly preoccupied with the question of what kind of reader I intended to be that summer. This happens to me periodically, usually when the weather changes and I begin imagining that a new season might also…
Harry Styles is the antidote to MAGA’s counterfeit masculinity
I walked into Manhattan’s Rawhide one night with four blond supermodels on my arm, and we danced until we were soaked. It was a room where desire moved in the open air and nobody apologized for a body, where sex…
MAGA has entered its arcade era
The White House has found a new way to promote President Donald Trump’s agenda: retro video games. There is, unfortunately for the administration, already a boss battle. The White House launched an online arcade this week featuring five games based…
Isaac Mizrahi’s “Unzipped” shows why flawed artists matter
On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily. It’s the day after Mizrahi’s Spring/Summer 1994 show, and the ink on…