In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

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“A victory, basically, for Combs.” A reflection on the trial of Sean Combs, in which the rapper was acquitted of the most ...

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Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

As some Wall Street billionaires melt down over Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform, a prominent progressive economist argues ...