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How the Fridge Changed Flavor
It was the most talked-about meal in the United States. In the weeks leading up to the luncheon, its organizers received so many requests for seats that they switched...
“Flipside” Is a Treasure Trove of Music and Memory
Chris Wilcha’s new documentary, “Flipside,” is easy to summarize, but it defies summary nonetheless, because it advances by a lurching, associative method that leaves fault lines on the surface...
The Eccentric Silversmith Behind Tiffany & Co., at the Met
Rachel SymeStaff writerSome people are born with a silver spoon in their hands. Edward C. Moore, however, was born, in 1827, into a more literal inheritance: his father, John...
Bannon Behind Bars
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Käthe Kollwitz’s Raw Scrapes
On my only trip to Berlin, in 2019, I saw a lot of Käthe Kollwitz. I walked through Kollwitzstrasse and Kollwitzplatz, near the site of her home, in Prenzlauer...
Malika Andrews Plays Through the Pressure
On March 11, 2020, Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, received word that the Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who at that moment was in an arena filled with nineteen...
Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”
When Drew de Pinto first learned about the Compton’s Cafeteria riot—in which a diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district erupted in fighting between a group of trans women and...
What Doge Taught Me About the Internet
In the early twenty-tens, one cottage industry in digital journalism was the unmasking of Internet memes: a journalist would identify the source of a popular image or joke just...
The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content
In 1974, Martin Scorsese was a year removed from his breakthrough film—the semi-autobiographical “Mean Streets,” about a young man in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood who is sinking into...
Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due?
Elaine May became famous at twenty-five and rich soon thereafter, but it took her another decade to figure out what to do with her life, by which point she...
