“Jason and I didn’t coördinate our outfits,” Dame Helen Mirren said, while standing onstage next to “Aquaman” ’s Jason Momoa, to present the Oscar for best documentary film. “But it goes to show that these days a Hawaiian god and a Read More …
On November 30th, the musician Jeff Tweedy will release a solo album of new material titled “WARM.” George Saunders wrote the liner notes, which we present here. A person gets to a certain stage in life—I’m there myself—when, no longer Read More …
The progress of technology can seem inexorable—a kind of unstoppable lunge. It’s curious, then, to consider the trajectory of Concorde, the first (and last) supersonic passenger airplane. Americans often refer to “the Concorde,” as if it were a single aircraft, Read More …
The press tour for “Norm Macdonald Has a Show” (Netflix) has found its host bouncing a doltish head against tense membranes. To the Times Magazine, Macdonald, who has few peers as a standup comic and unique proportions as a cult Read More …
The Berlin-based cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s new book, “Parallel Lives,” which will be published in December, is a dazzling and disorienting collection of four short stories detailing the author’s interactions with the future. Schrauwen artfully weaves himself into and out of Read More …
How many ads must a man look upon before he can truly see? Let’s start in the heart of Budweiser’s America, where the adorable ears of a Dalmatian flap in the breeze. The dog accompanies a beer delivery—a horse-drawn wagon Read More …
It’s 1963 and “Doctor Who” is on television: as the show’s title appears on the screen, a voiceless warble lofts over a throbbing bassline. For decades, the composer credit was given solely to Ron Grainer, but now we know that Read More …
The trailer for the first season of “BoJack Horseman” is adorned with one of those savant-like Internet comments: “This trailer tricked us into thinking it’s just a dumb funny show when in actuality it’s dark and depressing.” While Netflix technically Read More …
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Instagram accounts that will gladly serve your timeline a gumbo of custom sneakers, high-fashion runway shots, limited-edition collaboration sneakers, pop-culture ephemera, outlandish Photoshops, rapper paparazzi shots, and, mostly, more sneakers, but every day Read More …
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is almost certainly going to be appointed the next member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Whatever Christine Blasey Ford said in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and whatever Kavanaugh said Read More …