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The Gaza We Leave Behind
On a summer evening many years ago, my father and I sat on the roof of our family home in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, and we talked about...
Growing Up with the Writer Ved Mehta
My parents’ apartment had never looked better than on the day it was photographed to sell. As I walked through the rooms, the only thing that seemed out of...
Putting the Breakfast in Breakfast Ramen
Before becoming a chef, Purdie worked for a decade as a stylist at the late department store Henri Bendel, and on her lunch breaks she often went to a...
The Killers’ Return to Las Vegas
A tense and anticipatory silence engulfed the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It didn’t last long, but an entire universe of waiting seemed to unfold in mere seconds. Then a...
The Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Two Hundred Years
James Ijames has three genres in mind for “Good Bones,” directed by Saheem Ali. First, it’s a haunted-house thriller: Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) walks around her new home—a restored...
Jamming with J.D. and Tim
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Doppelgängers Abound in “The Hills of California” and “Yellow Face”
The setting for “The Hills of California,” Jez Butterworth’s often comic, secretly heartsick drama, now at the Broadhurst, is an unfashionable guesthouse in the seaside resort town of Blackpool,...
How to Opt Out of A.I. Online
Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid...
Where the Bubble-Tea Industry Has Gone Into Hyperdrive
As a nineties kid who grew up drinking bubble tea, I long ago wrote the drink off as a cheap indulgence, whose satisfying sugar rush quickly metabolizes into lingering...
Does Anyone Really Know You?
At the end of “Anna Karenina,” Konstantin Levin, the less famous of the novel’s two main protagonists, muses on his isolation amid a loving family. Unlike Anna, he has...
An Idyllic Music Series in the Hebrides
On August 7, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn took a steamer from the Scottish mainland to the grandly rugged island of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. Later that day, the composer...
The Unrivalled Omnipresence of Queen Elizabeth II
For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his...